Now Hiring - Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. - Retail Sales Sales Executive in Portland, ME

Full description of the position

About Baldor

Since our beginnings as part of the iconic Greenwich Village retail store, Balduccis, Baldor has maintained its original promise curate and deliver the best ingredients from around the world. For 25 years, we have served the food industry using cutting-edge logistics to create a seamless customer experience. Our commitment to service and quality has made us the first choice in distribution for a diverse list of industry leaders, including hotels, restaurants, county clubs, hospitals, and nursing homes.

Position Summary

As an industry leader in wholesale, retail, and residential food distribution, Baldor Specialty Foods continues to grow and evolve rapidly across all departments. We are searching for a food-obsessed Sales Executive, who has worked in sales long enough to know whats demanded of you: Cold-calling busy chefs, working to gain new clients and maintaining established ones, by sometimes visiting busy, hot kitchens, as the job demands. And, if you like to make and stick to budgets, almost as much as you love analyzing details, you may be our next Sales Executive.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of Baldor. There is nothing more powerful than the human touch. We need you to set our service apart from the competition especially in this era of digitation.
• Show us why you Love Sales: Service existing and identify new accounts.
• Manage the Money: Maintain sales budgets on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
• Pick up the Phone and Get on the Road: Introduce and recommend new and current products to customers.
• Understand your Audience: Develop and maintain pricing structures that make sense for our business.
• Share responsibility: Supervise and delegate daily duties to team members where applicable.
• Know your Market: Monitor competition and gather field information.
• Share your Two Cents: Recommend changes in products, service, and policies by evaluating results and competitive landscape.
• Lead with Forward Thinking: Resolve customer complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions, and making recommendations to management.
• Strive to Keep Learning: Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, visiting our with our farm and partner community, and by walking the box to see whats great.

Requirements and Skills

• Your PASSION and knowledge of FOOD!
• Your love of selling the right things to the right people.
• Your skills garnered toward managing target accounts and maintaining client relationships.
• Your history: 4+ years of successful sales or related experience
• Your commitment to high-quality, top notch, everything.
• Your unrivaled communication, negation and presentation abilities.
• Your never-ending get-it-done mindset.
• Your love of working under pressure in fact, thats how you thrive.
• Your ability to successfully complete many jobs simultaneously and to prioritize.
• Your love of organization, leading a team and celebrating successes.
• Your brilliant computer skills that will help you master our technology systems.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 4 years

Shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Commission pay

Weekly day range:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: On the road