Sales Associate- Produce

Chefs Warehouse • San Francisco, CA

28d

About The Position

Position Summary: The Account Manager is responsible for providing high quality service with a focus on corporate initiatives for assigned chain or independent account(s). They operate as a team conductor to manage, direct, and coordinate all sales plans and programs. The Account Manager is responsible for strategic selling, bringing core product expertise and leveraging specialists when needed. They are responsible for creating partnering relationships of trust, integrity, customer satisfaction and loyalty and ensures customer compliance. They collaborate with their teams to achieve the objective of building out the store.

Requirements

• Associates' degree in business or related field preferred.
• Strong Excel skills
• Culinary and/or sales food retail experience
• Minimum of 2 years of sales experience
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Aptitude for financial reporting

Responsibilities

• Execute sales plans and goals designed to increase sales, profit margin and minimize expenses.
• Identify and manage new sales opportunities and servicing of existing accounts.
• Investigate, recommend, and educate new product offerings to capture new market trends.
• Forecast profit, volume growth and other related goals as determined.
• Establish buying influences, budgets and purchasing criteria for customer accounts.
• Prepare reports on customer account status.
• Delivers on corporate goals to deliver synergy and cross selling capabilities to customers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees