Account Manager

Sales Account Rep

• Fast growing meat distributor is expanding the sales team and is looking for a protein sales rep toe help expand the Chicago and the Midwest territory
•  MUST HAVE PROTEIN OR PRODUCE SALES EXPERIENCE TO GROCERY

Responsibilities:

•  Sell various proteins to new and existing customers. Includes asking questions to pinpoint the best offerings, giving demos or presentations, and maintaining customer relationships.
•  Reach out to leads through a variety of channels, such as email, phone, text, and social media.
• Negotiating with leads and using persuasion techniques to overcome objections and landing deals that are beneficial to the company, while also providing customers with optimal value. 
• Participate in company meetings with sales managers and other sales reps. Involves providing a recap of recent results and accomplishments. 
• Manage and grow existing customer accounts across large and small grocery chains

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sales experience or account management from the protein industry selling to grocery stores
• MUST HAVE knowledge of various proteins or produce; ideally meats, fishes, pork, chicken, lamb and related
• Proactive
• Excellent communication skills
• Hungry to go after new business
• Team player
• Self-directed
• Motivated by commission sales

Preferred experience:

• BS/BA in Business, Operations, Economics, or related
• Bi-lingual English / Spanish is preferred

Benefits

1. would consider a candidate working remotely any of these cities: 

• MN: Minneapolis/St. Paul
• WI: Milwaukee
• MI: Detroit and Grand Rapids
• IN: Indianapolis
• OH: Columbus and Cincinnati
• KY: Lexington and Louisville
• MO: St. Louis and Kansas City
• IA: Des Moines
• NE: Omaha