Sales Representative

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Sysco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

🏨 Hospitality

Logistics • Healthcare • Hospitality

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

• Promote the company's products and services and build relationships with new and existing accounts • Help Sysco customers succeed while achieving company sales and profit goals • Develop new business, penetrate existing accounts, and minimize lost business within the assigned territory • Seek and qualify prospects according to company account stratification goals • Research customer business needs and develop an appropriate mix of products and services • Evaluate market trends and recommend products based on customer business needs and goals • Share information about market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales • Answer customer questions about products, prices, availability, and use • Provide product information and practical training to customer personnel • Drive to customer accounts, conventions, company meetings, and other business events • Communicate and collect accounts receivable as necessary with the credit department and clients • Manage deliveries and troubleshoot order-process issues • Participate in company functions, promotions, customer visits, and customer events • Attend general sales and district meetings and ongoing training sessions • Assist with training new employees as requested • Review and analyze sales, special-order, bid-file, and gross-profit-margin reports • Prepare sales budgets and reports, maintain sales records, process credits and pick-up requests, prepare sales quotes and menu suggestions, and file reports • Perform other assigned duties

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, Hospitality, Culinary Arts, or related discipline, OR HSD/GED and 3 years of Restaurant Management, B2B, or outside sales experience, or equivalent relatable experience including completion of the Sysco Sales Internship • Bi-Lingual, restaurant management, foodservice outside sales, and chef experience preferred • Valid driver's license with a driving record meeting company insurability standards • Current automobile insurance with bodily injury limits of $100,000 each person and $300,000 each accident, and property damage limits of $100,000 • Must pass employment testing • Must sign Sysco Protective Covenants Agreement • Reside or be willing to relocate to the geographical vicinity of the territory • Basic PC skills and proficiency with MS Office • Ability to read, write, and speak English • Ability to work some evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Bonus • Promotional incentive opportunities • Car allowance (mileage reimbursement for candidates in CA) • Cell phone provided • Career pathing opportunities • Opportunity to be part of a purpose driven organization that supports communities and associates • Specialized sales training • Individual as well as team-based selling • Monthly and annual sales rewards and recognition • Robust benefits package including an Employee Stock Purchase Plan • 401(k) with automatic matching