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Job Title: Gourmet Food Sales Associate
Job Type: full-time
Job Location: New York, NY
Job Description: The Chefs' Warehouse is one of the leading gourmet food distributors offering a broad line of quality, gourmet food products to fine restaurants, caterers, country clubs and other high end hospitality providers.
Looking for excited, passionate, and driven Sales people with a proven track record of opening new business and maximizing profitable sales. Responsibilities include promoting and selling a diverse, high end product line.
- Compiles lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from newspapers, business directories, industry ads, trade shows, Internet Web sites, and other sources.
- Travels throughout assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit orders, or talks with customers or by phone.
- Displays or demonstrates product, using samples or catalog, and emphasizes salable features.
- Quotes prices and credit terms and prepares sales contracts for orders obtained.
- Estimates date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of own firm's production and delivery schedules.
- Prepares reports of business transactions and keeps expense accounts.
- Works with inside sales representatives to keep account activities and literature up to date.
- Tracks stock levels.
- Enters new customer data and other sales data for current customers into computer database.
- Develops and maintains relationships with purchasing contacts.
- Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.
- Mentors with Senior to obtain institutional knowledge concerning products, processes and systems.
- 1 - 5 years outside sales experience within the food industry (strongly desired, perishable foods preferred).
Application Process: Apply online only here: http://www.jobbook.com/en/employers/the-chef-s-warehouse/jobs/410
