Foodservice Customer Account Specialist

🕒 September 14

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $71.3k - $107k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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General Mills

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1928

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

General Mills is a leading global food company that has been dedicated to making food for over 150 years. They create a wide array of beloved products, ranging from cereals and snacks to meals that bring joy to families around the world. Driven by a commitment to sustainability and community impact, General Mills focuses on responsible sourcing and healthful food offerings, ensuring that they uphold high standards in food safety and ethics.

📋 Description

• Drive incremental volume growth and sustain existing volume by owning relationships with foodservice operators • Sell company product lines across K12, Colleges & Universities, Healthcare, Commercial, and other non-commercial channels • Provide foodservice customers with expertise regarding products, competitors, and industry knowledge • Leverage sales tools and analyze internal reporting to plan daily activities and identify new business opportunities • Support foodservice distributor and industry events, including Food Shows, Distributor Sales Meetings, and Targeted Blitzes • Sustain and drive incremental volume • Identify and sell General Mills foodservice products to key operators across the territory to grow regional volume • Collaborate with Region Account Executives to create pull-through demand for core gaps and innovation • Train distributor sales teams on products to obtain leads • Use Salesforce, Firefly, and Excel-based reporting to identify and close new opportunities • Develop strategic geographic call patterns to maximize call coverage, including 15–20 consultative calls per week • Develop and leverage local operator opportunities involving products and promotions • Target lost opportunities using operator reporting • Place and activate new items • Support critical distributor and industry events

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma • Foodservice Industry Experience (Sales or Operations) • Strong interpersonal & communication skills • Win as a team (team player) • Self-motivated with ability to maintain workload from remote office • Applicants must be at least 18 years old • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis • General Mills will not sponsor applicants for work visas • Preferred: 3+ years of Foodservice industry experience • Preferred: Problem solving skills • Preferred: Working knowledge of the territory • Preferred: Developed relationships with operators in territory • Preferred: Salesforce Experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Total Rewards package • Health benefits • Retirement and financial wellbeing benefits • Time off programs • Wellbeing support • Perks • Potential eligibility for an annual incentive program

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