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Sysco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🤝 B2B

B2B • Food and Beverage • Sustainability

Sysco is a global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, and other customers who prepare meals away from home. The company's extensive product portfolio also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With a talented workforce of over 76,000 colleagues, Sysco operates 340 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024, Sysco generated sales of more than $78 billion. The company actively engages in sustainability efforts, partnering with food banks and advocating for farm-to-table initiatives. Sysco's mission is to support diverse communities, fight hunger, and be a trusted business partner by delivering quality products and innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Responsible for Strategic Account Planning, developing new business, growing account portfolio, and retaining customer accounts to achieve profitable sales growth within assigned territory • Responsible for maintaining and identifying new sales opportunities by evaluating customer needs and analyzing market trends within existing accounts • Makes sales calls and presentations to develop and maintain a solid customer relationship to generate sales and category penetration • Ensure existing customers are compliant with Brand standards of their flag and Guest Supply capture 85% of the Market basket of sales for each customer • Possess strong negotiation skills and ability to manage and maintain profitable margins • Leverage product knowledge, ROI, sales technology tools (i.e., Phocas, GForce and Salesforce.com) and sales training resources to effectively target new prospects and opportunities and provide end to end sales consultive services • Be informed of market conditions, product innovations, and competitor’s products and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided • Continuously manage assigned accounts and take corrective action, as needed, to maintain and improve the overall customer experience • Regularly communicate with assigned accounts as appropriate, including new products and services, company changes, holiday schedules, product pricing or information changes and new opportunities • Immediately notify management if an existing account is in jeopardy of discontinuing service or issues remain unresolved regardless of attempts to correct situation • Work with Accounts Receivable to ensure customers pay invoices within agreed upon terms • Regularly interact and communicate with various internal departments to provide vital information that may be necessary for servicing the customer. This may include advance notification to Merchandising of changes, increased or decreased product movement, new business, changes in proprietary product or other related information • Gain new Accounts within the territory, and responsible for all account management and customer service responsibilities • Assist in the set-up of new accounts, including Customer Account Application (CAA), customer order guides, pricing, order schedules, files, etc. • Coordinate with other departments as appropriate to meet or exceed customer expectations • Accurately forecast sales results and trends for a specific territory • Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning to optimize performance and career growth • Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present • Maybe required to work non-traditional hours, while also providing a level of individual autonomy to support and successfully meet customer needs • Track activities and results, collaborate on opportunities, and champion the team selling process through use of Salesforce (Sysco’s CRM tool) • Take a proactive approach to owning learning / development and actively participate in large group, district and specialized training and programs to sharpen consultative selling skills and product knowledge • Is willing to work safely with minimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their Supervisor. • Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present. • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 2 years or more of sales experience required, with a proven record of sales success and history of accomplishments • Experience in hospitality or supply/distribution sales preferred • Experience in relationship sales managing new and existing customer opportunities and up-selling preferred • Experience with trip planning, territory routing, and account prioritization preferred • Completion of post-secondary education or equivalent experience • Professional salesperson with proven ability to cultivate relationships and grow sales • Strong financial acumen and ability to properly plan and execute business plans • Demonstrated skills in the area of consultative selling, networking and negotiations • Business and restaurant operations acumen to manage sophisticated customers • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with and influence a variety of key stakeholders • Ability to express information in terms of profit and loss, food cost and expense ratio • Strong communication skills: ability to effectively communicate with internal and external teams • Excellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to execute multiple initiatives at the same time • Ability to learn the use of proprietary CRM tools for planning and forecasting sales growth • Solid analytical problem-solving skills, including familiarity with analyzing reports and deriving insights from data • Proactive, self-directed, with the ability to structure a weekly schedule to be successful • Proficient in Microsoft Applications Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) • Valid driver’s license in good standing with access to a vehicle is required • Demonstrate a high level of business acumen and interpersonal savvy.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Flexible Benefits including Health and Dental, Health Care Spending and Wellness Accounts • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability • Life Insurance • Voluntary Optional Insurance • Parental Leave Plan • Company Pension Plan • Group RRSP & TFSA • Employee and Family Assistance • Stock Purchase Plan • Maple Virtual Care • Unlimited on-line learning • Sysco product discounts • Preferred vendor discounts • Associate Resource Groups (*benefits may vary based on location or bargaining unit)