Account Executive - Quick Service Restaurant Chains

About Us

We are looking for an Account Executive to drive the growth of our Cooper-Atkins business across Eastern Europe. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially driven sales professional who enjoys building strategic relationships, developing new markets, and helping customers improve food safety standards across multi-site operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Sales Growth & Territory Development

• Develop and execute a strategic territory plan to drive sales growth across Eastern European markets.
• Achieve or exceed annual revenue, margin, and growth objectives.
• Identify and pursue opportunities with Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) chains, restaurant groups, foodservice operators, distributors, dealers, and channel partners.
• Build and maintain a healthy sales pipeline capable of delivering sustainable year-over-year growth.
• Prioritize high-potential markets, accounts, and channels to maximize commercial success.

Strategic Account Management

• Manage and expand relationships with existing Cooper-Atkins customers across the territory.
• Develop strong connections with key stakeholders including operations, food safety, quality assurance, procurement, supply chain, engineering, and executive leadership teams.
• Conduct strategic account reviews and identify opportunities to expand product adoption across locations, applications, and operating platforms.
• Understand customer business objectives and position solutions that address food safety, temperature compliance, operational consistency, productivity, and risk reduction.
• Support regional implementation of multinational foodservice and QSR programs.

New Business Development

• Identify, engage, and win new foodservice, restaurant, hospitality, convenience, and institutional foodservice customers.
• Develop relationships with emerging regional QSR brands and growing foodservice operators.
• Drive competitive conversions and standardization opportunities.
• Lead pilot programs, product evaluations, operational trials, and multi-location deployments.
• Work closely with distributors, dealers, and strategic partners to increase market penetration and channel effectiveness.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with marketing, product management, customer service, and operations teams to support business growth.
• Provide market intelligence, competitive insights, and customer feedback to influence business strategy.
• Represent Cooper-Atkins and Copeland at industry events, customer meetings, and trade shows.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Food Science, Hospitality, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in B2B sales, business development, strategic account management, or a similar customer-facing commercial role.
• Demonstrated success in achieving sales targets and developing strategic customer relationships.
• Strong prospecting, account management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels of an organization.
• Fluent English language skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively across Eastern Europe.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience selling into foodservice, QSR, hospitality, food equipment, food safety, or related industries.
• Knowledge of restaurant operations and multi-site foodservice environments.
• Experience working with distributors, dealer networks, and channel partners.
• Proven ability to develop new markets and build business in emerging territories.
• Experience managing large strategic or multi-location customer accounts.
• Fluency in Polish and/or additional Eastern European languages.
• Ability to work independently while managing customers across multiple countries and cultures.

About the Location:

Based in Poland, this role offers the opportunity to work at the center of one of Eastern Europe's most dynamic and rapidly expanding markets. Poland provides excellent access to major foodservice, hospitality, and distribution networks across the region, making it an ideal base for supporting customers throughout Eastern Europe. Operating from a home office while traveling regularly across the territory, you will engage with leading restaurant brands, foodservice operators, distributors, and strategic partners while helping expand Cooper-Atkins' presence in key growth markets. The role combines the flexibility of remote work with the excitement of building new business across multiple countries and cultures.