Culinary Outside Sales Rep: Seafood (SF Bay Area)

Santa Monica Seafood; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short/long term disability

Life insurance

401(k) with employer match

Training provided

Job summary

Santa Monica Seafood is looking for a Culinary Outside Sales Representative to help restaurants with seafood sourcing, menu ideas, costing, and quality by leveraging culinary expertise. This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and covers a territory from San Francisco to the Peninsula and San Jose.

You will focus on building customer relationships, presenting products, and meeting sales and margin goals, with a competitive base salary and opportunity for commissions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or related experience.
• Travel within assigned territory.
• Languages preferred: Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, or other.

Responsibilities

• Research new opportunities to sell seafood products by visiting existing customers and prospecting new customers.
• Analyze customer business opportunities by identified vertical markets.
• Develop and deliver sales presentations and close sales in a professional and effective manner.
• Planning skills on Menu ideas and food costing.
• Maintain order guides and pricing files using product and/or customer analysis and comparisons.
• Keep informed of new products, and other general information of interest to customers.
• Participate in developing long and short-range sales and marketing plans. Conduct training sessions for key clients and their staff. Develop marketing and ad strategies for restaurant clients.
• Meet all monthly sales and margin objectives and annual sales budgets.

Skills

Travel ability

Foodservice sales

Culinary knowledge

Languages

Education

Bachelor's degree or related experience

Job description

Santa Monica Seafood is looking for a Culinary Outside Sales Representative to help restaurants with seafood sourcing, menu ideas, costing, and quality by leveraging culinary expertise. This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and covers a territory from San Francisco to the Peninsula and San Jose.

You will focus on building customer relationships, presenting products, and meeting sales and margin goals, with a competitive base salary and opportunity for commissions.