Sales Representative

Job Description

Position Summary:

As an Area Manager, you are responsible for maintaining and expanding a portfolio of customers around the Grand Island NE area to maximize sales and profits of foodservice products and value added services. The qualified candidate must be a strategic thinker and innovative planner that can identify business opportunities, build positive customer relations and maintain account relationships while seeking and cultivating new accounts.

Position Responsibilities:

• Planning and organizing schedules to call on prospective new accounts
• Regularly call on existing and potential customers
• Identify customer needs and work to satisfy them, monitor sales volumes, understand customer’s needs to recommend products and solutions.
• Promote programs and items, collect customer payments; manage pricing and monitor credit term compliance.
• Be available for emergency deliveries to customers
• Other projects or duties as assigned.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 2 years of industry related experience or a degree from a culinary school will be considered equivalent experience.
• Outside sales experience in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills, organizational and time management skills, strong desire to build new business, strong work ethic and attention to details, excellent customer service skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Position requires extensive local travel- valid driver’s license and clean MVR with dependable means of transportation.
• Infrequent lifting of 25 – 30 pounds may be required.
• This position must pass a post-offer background and drug test.