We are seeking a passionate, self-motivated individual with a love for food and a flair for sales to join a growing Foodservice Business Development team playing a key role in delivering outstanding customer experiences, driving sales growth, and securing new business across the Southeast Leinster region. This opportunity is ideal for a commercially minded chef or hospitality professional ready to take their passion for quality food into a thriving commercial role.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop new and existing food service accounts
- Maintaining a call pattern with existing customers.
- Provision of excellent customer service, product and industry knowledge
- Identify and target business opportunities with new food service accounts.
- Expand current offering and proposition to existing customers.
- Deliver a prompt response to all customer.
- Drive continual improvement of product knowledge and share this with customers to improve growth of sales.
- Offer new food solutions/concepts to customers
- Submission of daily and weekly sales paperwork including weekly planner to the Food Service Commercial Sales Manager.
- Analyse sales results by customers for the territory to establish current trading situations and identify key customers to visit on a regular basis.
- Work cross functionally with other departments in the business eg: National Accounts, Finance, Marketing and HR to deliver shared objectives.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- A proven track record within the Food Service business.
- Ability to access, analyse and interpret sales data.
- Experience in the use of sales report data.
- A knowledge of sales and margins processes.
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral communication.
- Results driven individual
- Strong numerical skills
- Full driving license.
Desirable:
- Food Retail, Culinary, hospitality or beverage education or experience and the ability to communicate effectively with Chefs.
To apply send your CV to jobs@peoplegroup.ie, through our website www.peoplegroup.ie
For more information on this role call 01 661 9636
Location: Southeast
Salary: Competitive
Job Ref: 9416PL