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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

District Sales Manager

Field SalesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRaleigh, NC, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least a high school education is required.
  • At least two years of experience successfully growing profitable sales in the foodservice industry is required.
  • Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders and derive insights through probing questions and collaborative problem-solving.
  • Organizational and project management skills, including the ability to execute multiple initiatives autonomously.
  • Ability to use Sysco's Customer Relationship Management tool for planning and forecasting sales growth.
  • Mastery of consultative selling, marketing principles, prospecting, networking, coaching, and negotiations.
  • Ability to coach, counsel, train, and direct associates, and to supervise and motivate others.
  • Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
  • Ability to develop new business, penetrate existing accounts, and minimize lost business to achieve profitable sales growth and assigned objectives.
  • Ability to seek and qualify prospects under company account stratification goals.
  • Ability to research customer business needs and develop a mix of products and services to meet those needs.
  • Ability to evaluate market trends and recommend products based on customer business needs and goals.
  • Knowledge of market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales, and ability to share relevant information with customers.
  • Ability to answer customer questions about products, prices, availability, and product use.
  • Ability to provide product information and practical training to customer personnel.
  • Ability to communicate and collect accounts receivable as necessary, working with the credit department and clients, and collect balances due based on approved credit terms.
  • Ability to manage deliveries to the transportation department's routing schedule.
  • Ability to troubleshoot order-process problems, including out-of-stock items, special-order items, and low inventory.
  • Ability to review and analyze daily and weekly reports, including special-order requests, customer bid files, and sales and gross profit margin data.
  • Ability to perform administrative duties, including preparing sales budgets and reports, maintaining sales records, processing credits and pickup requests, preparing sales quotes and menu suggestions, and filing reports.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the performance and development of Sales Consultants within the district.
  • Conduct an average of three to five Sales Consultant work-withs per week, providing one-on-one coaching and direction.
  • Lead and facilitate Friday district meetings to educate and motivate the district and drive sales behavior changes.
  • Lead customer-engagement efforts by enabling Sales Consultants to offer customers expanded service-channel options, technology enablers, value-added services, and team selling.
  • Maintain a continuous-improvement focus on technology, sales skills, soft skills, and product knowledge.
  • Leverage Sales Support resources and tools to maximize Sales Consultants' consultative time.
  • Use the Customer Relationship Management tool to manage Sales Consultants' sales planning, prospecting, and daily customer engagement, and promote productive use of Sysco 360.
  • Deliver Sysco brand results and directly manage district conversion opportunities.
  • Support and promote national campaigns and promotions.
  • Coach, train, and provide timely feedback to develop Sales Consultants' consultative selling skills through The Sysco Way to Sell.
  • Use the CMP and QPP processes to coach the performance of sales colleagues in the district.
  • Execute territory planning and management.
  • Build independent relationships with top customers and high-value prospects.
  • Champion company initiatives and implement center-led strategy within the district.
  • Perform additional sales-management and operational duties, including customer relationship management.
  • Participate in company functions, promotions, customer visits, and customer events.
  • Attend and participate in general sales and district meetings.
  • Participate in ongoing training sessions.
  • Assist with training new employees as requested.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least five years of foodservice sales experience is preferred.

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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