Gourmet Culinary Partners · 2 days ago
Regional Sales Manager
Gourmet Culinary Partners partners with chefs and foodservice operators nationwide to enhance menu offerings. The Regional Sales Manager will be responsible for selling frozen food products through foodservice distributors to various segments including restaurants and hotels, while fostering relationships with end-user customers and developing comprehensive sales and marketing plans.
Responsibilities
Creates, maintains, and fosters relationships with end-user customers to support their menu needs agnostic of distributor
Develops and manages business, provides sales support, and marketing activities working as a liaison between the direct end-user customer and their preferred distributor
Plans in conjunction with marketing department and is available to work trade shows
Develops and executes comprehensive Sales and Marketing Plans to drive business and promote the brand
Travels through assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to promote the use of designated brand products
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business or related field from an accredited university or HS equivalent and 8+ years of direct food sales experience
Minimum of 5 years Culinary (Chef) and/or food manufacturing sales work experience
Knowledge / experience with GPOs and/or food distribution channels (i.e. Specialty Produce, Meat or Seafood distributors or broadline Sysco, US Foods, etc.)
1+ year using Salesforce or other CRM experience
Working knowledge with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Preferred
Chefs, Culinary Sales, Broker and/or Foodservice experience strongly preferred