District Sales Manager

Qualifications

Education

• High School education required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g. business administration) or equivalent educational level preferred.
  

Experience

• 2 or more years' experience successfully growing profitable sales in the foodservice industry.
• 5+ years' foodservice sales experience in the foodservice industry preferred.
  

Professional Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders.
• Can derive insights from others through probing questions and collaborative problem-solving.
• Superb organizational and project management skills, including the ability to execute multiple initiatives autonomously.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to use Sysco's proprietary Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for planning and forecasting sales growth.
• Demonstrates mastery of skills in the area of consultative selling, marketing principles, prospecting, networking, coaching, and negotiations.
• Effectively coach, counsel, train and direct associates.
• Capable of supervising and motivating others.
• Write reports and business correspondence.
• Develop new business, penetrate existing accounts, and minimize lost business to achieve profitable sales growth and special objectives within assigned territory.
• Seek and qualify prospects under company account stratification goals.
• Research customer business needs and develops a mix of products and service to meet needs.
• Evaluate market trends and recommend products to customers, based on business needs and goals.
• Be informed of market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided.
• Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, and product use.
• Provide product information and practical training to customer personnel.
• Communicate and collect accounts receivable as necessary, working with the credit department and client; collect all balances due based on approved credit terms.
• Manage deliveries to the routing schedule published by the transportation department.
• Troubleshoot any problems that occur during the order process (for example, out of stock items, special order items, low inventory, etc.).
• Participate in company functions, promotions, customer visits, and customer events.
• Attend and participate in general sales and district meetings.
• Review and analyze daily and weekly reports such as special order requests, customer bid files, and sales/gross profit margin data.
• Perform administrative duties, such as preparing sales budgets and reports, maintaining sales records, processing credits, and pick-up requests, preparing sales quotes and menu suggestions, and filing reports.
• Participate in ongoing training sessions.
• Assist with the training of new employees as requested.