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Job ID 53453BR

Category Sales

Shift 1st Shift

Job Type Full Time

Location IA Ankeny

Operating Company Performance Foodservice Cedar Rapids

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Area Sales Representative

IA Ankeny Position Requirements Position Summary : As an Area Sales Representative, you are responsible for maintaining and expanding a portfolio of customers to maximize sales and profits of foodservice products and value added services.

The qualified candidate must be a strategic thinker and innovative planner that can identify business opportunities, build positive customer relations and maintain account relationships while seeking and cultivating new accounts.

Position Responsibilities :

• Planning and organizing schedules to call on prospective new accounts
• Regularly call on existing and potential customers
• Identify customer needs and work to satisfy them, monitor sales volumes, understand customers needs to recommend products and solutions.
• Promote programs and items, collect customer payments; manage pricing and monitor credit term compliance.
• Be available for emergency deliveries to customers
• Other projects or duties as assigned.

2 years of industry related experience or a degree from a culinary school will be considered equivalent experience.

Outside sales experience in a fast paced environment.

Excellent verbal and written presentation skills, organizational and time management skills, strong desire to build new business, strong work ethic and attention to details, excellent customer service skills.

Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel.

Position requires extensive local travel- valid drivers license and clean MVR with dependable means of transportation.

Infrequent lifting of 25 30 pounds may be required.

This position must pass a post-offer background and drug test. Preferred Qualifications : 4 years college degree or 2 years Business to Business sales experience.

Foodservice distribution experience As part of Performance Food Group, Performance Foodservice offers the benefits of working for a nationwide company, while maintaining a local, family feel.

As a leader in the foodservice industry, we provide passionate, hard-working associates with opportunities to grow their careers while helping the restaurants we love build their dreams.

Our 10,000 associates procure, sell, and deliver more than 125,000 different food and food-related products to restaurants throughout the country.

We are inspired by food, invested in relationships, and offer an environment where you can thrive.

Last updated : 2024-03-08