Role: Catering Sales Representative
Job type: Permanent/Full time
Location: South Dublin
Start Date: As soon as possible
Role Objective:
To effectively manage and grow sales with client in line with expectations, while supporting the Growing Our Future initiative and assisting in maintaining a safe working environment for everyone in the business.
Responsibilities:
* New business development
* Introducing new catering customers to the company's products.
* Extending the range of products supplied to current catering customers.
* Distributor liaison
* Monitoring customers to ensure that they continue to be supplied through distributors.
* Developing relationships so that distributor personnel work to grow sales of products.
* Completing agreed work with distributors and reporting on time.
* Campaign Management
* Managing the company's promotion programme through distributors and customers on a month by month basis so as to optimise results.
* Managing sales drives and programmes into specific regions or customer types in a timely, effective and efficient manner.
* Reporting
* Reporting on Salesforce of daily reports and weekly reports.
* Reporting key events as they arise.
* Reporting market changes with respect to product, pricing, distributor changes, trends and new competition as they arise, in a prompt, efficient and timely manner.
Standards
* The following performance standards will be monitored.
* Monthly sales area budgets.
* Monthly new business development targets.
* Weekly call rates.
* Monthly hit rates
* Call standards as reported on on-going Field Sales Assessments.
* Administration and internal communication quality and timeliness.
* Distributor development.
Person:
* The ideal candidate will have good communication and presentation skills.
* They will be well organised and able to handle multiple tasks and multiple call types.
* The person will also be a relationship builder who develops long lasting high quality relationships with key customers and distributors.
* Background in marketing, sales, food or catering are all desirable but not essential.