Gordon Food Service · 2 months ago
Director of Sales
Arlington, Texas
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveHalperns Steak & Seafood is a company dedicated to providing superior meat and seafood specialty products. The Director of Sales is responsible for managing sales performance, coaching and developing sales associates, and driving growth within their district.
Food and Beverage
Responsibilities
Manages the performance and development of the Sales Team within the specified sales area
Effectively lead and facilitate meetings that educate, motivate and ultimately produce key behavior changes to drive sales
Lead and direct customer engagement efforts by enabling the district sales staff to provide customers with expanded service options
Fully leverages the management of sales planning, prospecting and daily customer engagement and expects productive utilization of staff
Accountable for providing coaching, training, and timely feedback to drive sales staff development of consultative selling skills of the sales associates (sales process)
Directly manages and engages critical/developing customer accounts, and ensures proper management of all other accounts in the sales area
Implements changes to programs or processes; ensuring all sales staff achieve required behavior changes and performance metrics within the sales area
Directly manage the performance and duties of the sales staff
Perform any other duties as required
Qualification
Required
Must have industry and segment knowledge and be able to analyze and interpret data and aggressively develop new business
Must be a strategic thinker in order to build relationships, network, and link resources to plan and execute business practices and achieve business goals
Meat and/or Seafood industry experience required
Must have the ability to multitask, prioritize and be able to work independently or within a team environment
Must have excellent written, verbal, organizational and communication skills as well as problem solving capabilities
Demonstrate the ability to prepare and deliver presentations and speak to customers both internal and external as a department representative
Preferred
Broadline sales experience preferred
Experience with commodity markets and forecasting models; and ability to translate those to make decisions is ideal
Benefits
Medical, Prescription Drug, EFAP Benefits after 30 days of employment
Dental, vision and other voluntary plans
Pre-Tax Saving Accounts
Profit Sharing
Family culture and career advancement opportunities
Company
Gordon Food Service
Gordon Food Service are food service operations such as restaurants like schools, universities, and hospitals.
Founded in 1897
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.07M2018-07-02Debt Financing· $6.07M
Leadership Team
Rich Wolowski
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
2025-10-30
Dayton Daily News
2025-10-26
Why CIOs must adopt an HR mindset for the age of agentic AI | CIO
2025-10-09
Company data provided by crunchbase