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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Sales Consultant

Field SalesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma is required.
  • Deep expertise in the meat and seafood category, or a restaurant/culinary background with the capacity to learn and apply new knowledge quickly.
  • Consultative sales ability.
  • Ability to manage time and work accountably without constant supervisor direction.
  • Strong customer relations skills and urgency in meeting customer needs.
  • Basic computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Outlook.

Responsibilities

  • Achieve the assigned sales plan by selling the company's products and services to maximize sales profitability, growth, and account penetration in the assigned territory.
  • Establish, develop, and maintain relationships with current and prospective customers to generate new business for the company's products and services.
  • Make in-person visits and presentations to existing and prospective customers.
  • Take customer orders with sales and gross profit per stop maximization goals in mind.
  • Participate in, review, and oversee order input for customers through communication with inside sales partners.
  • Respond promptly to customer problems and needs.
  • Review daily out-of-stocks, shortages, and transportation issues, and implement solutions quickly.
  • Review, analyze, and act on daily and weekly sales and margin reports to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Keep up to date with product applications, technical services, market conditions, competitive activities, trends, and other distributors and sales organizations in the market.
  • Participate in company training, customer events, and sales meetings held by sales leaders.
  • Develop a relationship with the accounts payable contact at every account.
  • Coordinate communication between accounts payable contacts and the account receivable manager or representative.
  • Use the 'Ask Early and Often' approach to control days sales outstanding and recognize when to use no-ship or cash-on-delivery terms.
  • Update bid files, customer profiles, and customer call sheets to ensure accurate pricing and item needs and reduce credits and returns.
  • Make independent decisions about customer relationship-building approaches, time and customer management, customer pricing, and self-motivation.
  • Participate in sales strategy decisions, contract and customer pricing, and authorization of credits and returns subject to review and approval.

Desired Qualifications

  • A four-year degree in culinary arts, business, marketing, agriculture/animal science, or related studies.
  • Two years of prior food service and/or sales experience.

About the Company

Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Sysco buys, stores and delivers food, kitchen supplies and equipment to restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels and other businesses that cook away from home. Alongside national brands, it sells its own Sysco Brand line of foods and supplies, which fills a large share of the cases it ships. Its biggest product groups are fresh and frozen meats, canned and dry goods, and frozen produce and baked goods. Customers order through Sysco sales representatives or online, and Sysco delivers from distribution centers across North America and Europe, earning money on the difference between what it pays suppliers and what customers pay for delivered goods. Sysco was founded in 1969, began public operations in 1970 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1969

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