What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Associate Intern position at SOUTHEAST ASIA MARKET, LLC?
Southeast Asia Food Group is seeking a Sales Associate Intern to expand its client base in and around New York City. Southeast Asia Food Group is a leading wholesale supplier of Asian ingredients, providing some of the most innovative restaurants, bars, bakeries, event venues, hotels, corporate cafeterias, and more with the ingredients they need to run their businesses. The role of the Sales Associate Intern will be responsible for identifying, targeting, and acquiring new client opportunities. Sales Associate Interns should be passionate about modern Asian cuisine, its ingredients, the restaurant/foodie scene in New York City, and be excited to engage with New York City’s top chefs, restaurant owners, and food buyers.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and target new account opportunities
- Finding new opportunities to service clients and to grow client relationships
- Communicating with chefs and buyers to understand their needs and ensure expectations are always being exceeded
- Nurture existing account relationships to drive ongoing growth
- Collecting and analyzing client purchase data to find new opportunities to better service clients
- Monitoring the health and success of new client relationships
- Relay information from the clients to the sales and purchasing team
- Provide strategic consultation to restaurants and chefs
- Resolving complaints and preventing issues from occurring
- Keeping a pulse on relevant food trends to ensure our inventory meets the needs of a growing market.
Requirements:
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working with large amounts of data and gleaning actionable insights
- Passion for Asian ingredients, cuisines, and the New York restaurant scene
- Maintaining a deep knowledge of the Southeast ingredient and product catalog to answer questions and to guide chefs as a subject matter expert
- Client-first mentality
- Must be willing to travel around New York City and the surrounding areas
Southeast Asia Food Group
Southeast Asia Food Group is a leading supplier of diverse Asian ingredients. From Michelin-rated chefs to emerging fast casual concepts and corporate cafeterias, Southeast provides the ingredients chefs and owners need to succeed. A family business founded in 1988, in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Southeast is committed to the success of each of its clients and is committed to quality, reliability, and honesty. Southeast is on a mission to make new food and unexpected flavors infinitely accessible.