What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Development Associate position at Midwest Foods?
Ready to turn your passion for food into a career with purpose? Join the dynamic team at Midwest Foods—a women-owned powerhouse based in Chicago and Kenosha, proudly serving the restaurant, hospitality, retail, and wholesale industries across Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
If you're fascinated by where food comes from, love tackling challenges, and thrive in a fast-paced, team-driven environment, this is your chance to make a real impact. We’re not just about delivering top-quality produce—we’re about building a better food system. Partnering with top growers and local farmers, we bring farm-to-plate stories to life while prioritizing sustainability and client satisfaction every step of the way.
We're on the lookout for passionate individuals with hospitality, restaurant, or service industry experience to join our Business Development Team. If you're a natural relationship builder, the thrill of a win, a problem solver, and growth-minded go-getter, this role was made for you.
Why Midwest Foods?
✨ A mission-driven company
🚀 Limitless opportunities for growth
🌱 A chance to shape the future of food
Sound like your kind of challenge? Let’s grow together!
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate, develop, and implement a strategic growth plan and professional goals.
- Cultivate new business opportunities.
- Retention of clients with ongoing purchases.
- Increase customer penetration through a diverse group of clients by utilizing the company’s portfolio of products and services.
- Achieve competitive and financially sound business.
- Drive a proactive approach to client engagement via solution-oriented practices.
- Devote energy to building collaborative relationships with Midwest Foods’s key stakeholders.
- Learn and comprehend Midwest Foods’s suite of product & services.
- Plan and oversee new marketing initiatives.
- Manage the full sales cycle.
- Shepherd’s client set up and acts as customer advocate for ongoing customer needs.
- Attend conferences, meetings, and industry events.
- Additional responsibilities as needed, pertaining to the job.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or 3 to five years of related professional experience in food/hospitality, service and/or sales.
- Ability to develop and deliver presentations that will attract profitable sales.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience in planning and implementing sales strategy.
- Proven experience in customer relationship management.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
- Proficient Microsoft Office packages.
- Experience with CRM or any other cloud-based programs recommended.
- Tech savvy and is up to date with current marketing strategies utilizing social media outlets and trends.
Benefits:
- Health, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, VL, Accident, Critical Illness Insurance
- 401-k with employer match
- Vacation and PTO
- Mileage
- Cell phone, laptop, and other duty related equipment
Compensation: base salary plus commission and bonuse. Time of hire negotiated base salary.