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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Field Sales Consultant

Field SalesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLos Angeles, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma is required.
  • A four-year degree in culinary arts, business, marketing, agriculture/animal science, or related studies is preferred.
  • Two years of prior food service sales and culinary background is preferred.
  • Center of the Plate (COP) experience is strongly preferred.
  • Deep expertise in the meat and seafood category, or a restaurant/culinary background with demonstrated capacity to quickly learn and apply new knowledge, is required.
  • Consultative sales ability is required.
  • The candidate must be self-motivated and accountable for time management without constant supervisor direction.
  • Strong customer relations skills and a sense of urgency in meeting customer needs are required.
  • Basic computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Outlook are required.
  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Establish, develop, and maintain business relationships with current and prospective customers in the assigned territory to generate new business for SSMG products and services.
  • Make in-person visits and presentations to existing and prospective customers.
  • Take customer orders with SSMG goals in mind, including maximizing sales and gross profit per stop.
  • 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 respond to daily and weekly sales and margin reports to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Keep abreast of product applications, technical services, market conditions, competitive activities, trends, and other distributors and sales organizations in the market.
  • Participate in SSMG training and customer events, as well as sales meetings held by Sysco sales leaders.
  • Develop a relationship with the accounts-payable contact at every account.
  • Coordinate communication between accounts-payable contacts and the SSMG accounts-receivable manager or representative.
  • Use the “Ask Early and Often” approach to control days sales outstanding, recognize warning signs, and determine when to apply no-ship or cash-on-delivery terms.
  • Update bid files, customer profiles, and customer call sheets to ensure proper pricing and accuracy of needed items, reducing costly credits and returns.
  • Build relationships with customers and stakeholders, manage time and customers, and make customer-pricing decisions independently.
  • Participate in sales strategy, contract pricing, customer pricing, and decisions authorizing 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 sales and culinary background.
  • Center of the Plate (COP) 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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