Bueno Foods, one of the Southwest's premier producers of New Mexican and Mexican style foods, serving restaurant and retail customers throughout the United States, is looking for a highly motivated Sales Manager in Retail who has a passion for New Mexico's culinary heritage.
You will be responsible for the following territories, and can work remotely: AZ, CO, NM, TX.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
You will be responsible for the following territories, and can work remotely: AZ, CO, NM, TX.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plans, directs and executes sales and marketing goals and objectives.
- Responsible for attaining sales goals within the expense budget.
- Recommends and implements distribution methods.
- Plans, controls and directs activities of food brokers and distributors to obtain maximum sales volume as requested.
- Supervises the sales development of new and existing products through appropriate distribution methods.
- Conducts market and competitive research as needed and prepares introductory plan.
- Develops and maintains relationships with customers and distributors.
- Trains sales staff including distributor and broker employees.
- Enforces and negotiates contracts.
- Analyzes sales activity by area, takes required actions.
- Coordinates pricing issues with marketing staff.
- Attends and participates in trade shows.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum three years sales, customer service or management experience or alternatively three years experience in the Retail industry as a buyer or similar management position.
- Ability to interact professionally with buyers, customers and other industry professionals.
- Ability to analyze problems and come up with profitable solutions.
- Ability to sell premium priced quality product over competitor’s product.
- Ability to develop and execute a sales plan.
- Proven ability to maintain a customer base despite increased competition and competitive prices.
- Ability to build sales through broker and distributor operations.
- Ability to analyze areas for sales potential.
- Ability to review and prepare detailed reports.
- Valid/current driver’s license and good driving record with no DWI’s.
- Ability to organize and manage a wide variety of projects simultaneously.
- Ability to motivate staff within broker and distributor networks and Bueno staff to obtain superior performance from them.
EDUCATION:
- 4-year undergraduate degree is preferred.
- Basic training in fundamentals of selling preferred.