Sales Coordinator

Maple Leaf Foods Inc; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Maple Leaf Foods Inc is seeking a Sales Coordinator to support growth in both Meat Protein and Alt Protein sectors. This role is essential for driving sales execution, managing projects, and ensuring customer satisfaction through effective collaboration across various teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and have the ability to prioritize multiple tasks effectively.

Benefits

Competitive Health and Wellness benefits

Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching

Learning and development opportunities

Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program

Up to two paid volunteer days annually

Qualifications

• Understanding of key US retail customers and brokers.
• Action-oriented with ability to manage complexity and prioritize tasks.
• Bandwidth to handle multiple responsibilities daily.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate customer portal data management and sales support.
• Manage cross-functional business projects and timelines.
• Support innovation projects in private label and execute sales strategies.

Skills

Sales Support Execution

Project Management

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-Solving

Job description

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The Opportunity: Sales Coordinator, US Retail, supports the Sales Execution Manger and sales efforts to grow volume and revenue across both Meat Protein and Alt Protein at MLF USA and in the Retail Channel. Profitable growth in the USA is essential to Maple Leaf Foods’ performance. This role ensures that the Sales Execution Manager, sales team, and our customers receive essential support for growing sales, maintaining ongoing business, and commercializing innovation projects by executing tasks and coordinating workstreams of many internal functional contributors and external stakeholders.

Sales Coordinator influences sales team performance by getting work done in the background to enable sales execution and ultimately building customer satisfaction and loyalty in the process. Both individual contributions and peer leadership are critical to success in this role. Navigating daily demands and properly prioritizing work is necessary to be effective in this role.

Role

Any MLF team member interested in being considered for this role are encouraged to apply online by June 11. Applications received beyond that date are not guaranteed consideration. Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Customer Portal Data Management: work with sales team and customers directly to make sure required MLF company and product info is loaded and up to date in their portals and databases.
• Cross functional support for business and innovation projects: Liaison between sales and support functions managing business and innovation projects, manages PDP process, coordinates necessary workstreams, execution timelines, and interfaces with internal and external stakeholders in private label innovation projects, with emphasis on effective execution. Get things done.
• General sales support: coordinates samples requests and shipments, manages online customer complaint database, distributes regular reports and syndicated data, maintains file system for presentation content and customer sales plans, execute ad hoc projects at direction of leadership.
• Maintain sales project/innovation/opportunity trackers: maintains details and status of sales projects and business opportunities from concept to commercialization. Maintains corresponding impact analysis and win loss data.
• Brokerage statement maintenance and reconciliation: prepare brokerage reports, review for anomalies and adjust where necessary, and send to sales for validation and approval.
• Cross-functional business coordination: Coordinate and collaborate with internal teams as appropriate to both promote customer satisfaction and internal stakeholder alignment
  
  

What You’ll Bring:

• Sales Support Execution
• Project Management
• Bandwidth to do many different things daily
• Action oriented and customer-focused
• Manage complexity, prioritize workstreams
• Problem-Solving & Adaptability
• Understanding of key US retail customers, brokers, products, and business landscape
• Communication and Listening
• Collaboration, coordination, across diverse internal and external stakeholders
  
  

What We Offer at Maple Leaf Foods:

• Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.
• An inclusive company culture and a work environment that keeps our people safe, rewards excellence, and empowers everyone to learn and contribute their best.
• A hybrid work model that embraces remote work for eligible roles, helping team members achieve work-life balance—combining the best of both spending time working remotely, benefitting from focus time, and purposeful collaboration in the office setting.
• Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, ‘speaker series’ events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.
• Supporting our deep commitment to community impact, we offer up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.
  
  

About Us: We’re a carbon neutral food company on a purposeful journey to Raise the Good in Food through better nutrition, safer food and workplaces, more humane animal care, and environmental sustainability efforts that protect our planet. We care about our communities and commit to reducing food insecurity in Canada. Join us on the journey. Let’s build a better future, together.

We’re passionate about food. For more than 100 years, we’ve made delicious, healthy protein that Canadians love under iconic national and regional brands, like Maple Leaf, Schneiders, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co. We’re on a journey to become the most sustainable protein company – not just in Canada – but on earth.

• We are carbon neutral.
• We are one of the only food companies in Canada to set science-based targets.
  
  

We’re a global food company with more than 13,500 team members. We operate sites in 20+ locations across Canada. We also have locations in the U.S. and Mexico, and do business in Asia. A diverse and inclusive work environment Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision and living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values. We believe in building, investing in, recognizing, and rewarding remarkable people who value an inclusive workplace, embrace all forms of diversity, and commit to including every voice in our collaborative environment. We’re so much stronger when we know we’re accepted and valued for who we are and what we each bring to the workplace. We embrace a strong, values-based culture Our eight Leadership Values are our north star. They guide the decisions we make for all our stakeholders: our consumers, our customers, our people, our communities, our shareholders, and the environment.

• Doing What’s Right
• Shared Value
• High Performance
• Diverse and Inclusive Teams
• Disciplined Decision Making
• Our Accountability
• Intense Curiosity
• Transparency and Humility
  
  

We thank all applicants for their interest in exploring employment opportunities with Maple Leaf Foods; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applicants may be subject to a background check and must meet the security criteria designated for the position.

Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision, living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values, and delivering winning results. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired; please contact our Talent Attraction Team at [e-mail] .

Disclaimer: Please note that salaries posted on sites other than the MLF Careers Page are not a reflection of Maple Leaf Foods and are an estimated salary range provided by that particular job board. Maple Leaf Foods offers competitive wages and an attractive total rewards package, which will be discussed during an interview with our Talent Team.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Services, and Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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