Bilingual Hospitality Professional

The Restaurant Store; Norristown (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental insurance

Wellness programs

Gym membership reimbursement

401k with company match

Training from manufacturers

Job summary

The Restaurant Store is seeking a Bilingual Hospitality Professional to support sales growth and customer engagement in our Norristown-area branch. You will assist the Sales Lead and Sales Specialist, focusing on Spanish-speaking customers and in-store product education.

Responsibilities include communicating with customers, identifying sales opportunities, promoting TRS.com, and helping maintain store presentation while supporting charitable initiatives in the market area.

Qualifications

• Focus on expanding sales from Spanish-speaking customer base.
• Communicate with Spanish-speaking customers within store to ensure awareness of products.
• Assist on-site visits and opportunities with product emphasis.
• Possess extensive product knowledge and provide on-site training within branch.
• Promote TRS.com for customer orders.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Sales Lead and Sales Specialist with sales activities.
• Focus on expanding sales from Spanish-speaking customers.
• Communicate with Spanish-speaking customers in-store.
• Accompany Street Marketing Associate to locations to reach Spanish-speaking customers.
• Contribute to internal quote system during on-site visits for appropriate sales opportunities.
• Demonstrate extensive product knowledge while performing product training within branch.
• Support membership and Gold Membership growth year over year.
• Identify marketing opportunities within market reach of branch location.
• Communicate with Branch Manager/Assistant Branch Manager to identify charitable organizations to support within market reach of branch location.
• Promote TRS.com for all customer orders.
• Maintain store cleanliness.

Skills

Spanish speaking

Customer communication

Sales support

Product knowledge

Tools

Quote system

Job description

As a Clark Associates company, The Restaurant Store provides the quality, value, and excellent service demanded by today’s busiest restaurateurs. The Restaurant Store operates eleven store locations in Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, and Reading, Pennsylvania, as well as Wilmington, Delaware and two locations in Baltimore, Maryland. The Restaurant Store offers customers a selection of over 20,000 items within their brick-and-mortar locations and over 300,000 items through the ecommerce site, TheRestaurantStore.com. Great prices, convenient online ordering, and virtually unlimited supplies make the Restaurant Store a food service professional’s premier source for restaurant supplies and equipment.

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental insurance, wellness programs, gym membership reimbursement, and a 401k with company match. Employees also enjoy food service industry training from top manufacturers and product experts.

A Bilingual Hospitality Professional with The Restaurant Store is responsible for assisting the Sales Lead and Sales Specialist with all aspects of nurturing a sales culture within the branch, including but not limited to the following areas of focus:

• Focus on expanding sales from Spanish-speaking customer base
• Communicating with Spanish-speaking customers within store setting to ensure customers are aware of all products available for sale within store
• Accompanying Street Marketing Associate to various locations with Spanish-speaking customers within market reach of store to clearly communicate products available from TRS
• Contributing to internal quote system while performing on-site visits for appropriate sales opportunities
• Possess extensive product knowledge while performing product training within branch
• Membership and Gold Membership growth year over year
• Communicating with Street Marketing Associate to identify marketing opportunities within market reach of branch location
• Communicating with Branch Manager/Assistant Branch Manager to identify charitable organizations to support within market reach of branch location
• Promoting TRS.com for all customer orders
• Maintaining store cleanliness

This position has the following physical requirements:

• Work is performed while standing and/or walking, up to and including 8 ½ hours/day.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull medium weights, up to 50 pounds.
• Requires activities involving being around moving machinery, exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity, and exposure to dust, fumes and gases.