The Sales Executive will achieve new sales and growth and develop business for a local bakery in the greater Phoenix area.
Build collaborative relationships across multiple functions within the bakery and with the customer base.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Business development and sales activities
- Achieve revenue growth and profitability goals
- Manage the sales, customer support, and service issues for customers.
- Develop and maintain strong customer relationships by identifying and implementing initiatives to add value for the customers
- Develop proposals and drive customer-specific custom product initiatives
- Implement price increases and margin improvement as appropriate
- Develop new business via identifying and developing new customers in the greater Phoenix area
- Maintain and update appropriate databases and sales support systems relative to account activity, pricing, new product
- Provide written and verbal updates on sales activity and competitive activity in Phoenix
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Experience in food packaging, food manufacturing, or similar industry
- Understand the need to and the ability to create meaningful relationships.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to navigate through complex and difficult selling situations
- Proactive work style with the energy and passion for results and the desire to make a difference
- Highly motivated and energetic; a self-starter
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills
- Computer Literate-Word, Excel & PowerPoint