This is a professional sales position responsible for growing new business with the expectation of achieving assigned business goals while enhancing the customer experience. The culinary specialist is a key role in the team based selling model and as such will be an ambassador for Sysco brand, innovation and Category Management (CatMan) products and will leverage all opportunities to close the sale with customers.
Requirements
- Develop and execute targeted culinary strategies to achieve individual and region annual business goals
- Coordinate with Director of Business Resources, leveraging data to identify top opportunities for business reviews
- Collaborate with sales team partners to clearly identify customer challenges, needs, or opportunities and deliver creative and productive solutions
- Track activities and results, collaborate on opportunities, and champion the team selling process through use of Salesforce (Sysco's CRM tool)
- Leverage sampling in a solutions-oriented manner to close sales
- Be informed of market conditions and trends, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided
- Facilitate internal/external food shows, catering and event planning activities
- Coordinate kitchen logistics in support of internal/external culinary events
- Develop and maintain relationships with customers, chefs and sales teams through cooperative participation in local events, culinary competitions, culinary schools and other relevant opportunities
- Advise sales team on product specifications. Serve as an expert on Cutting Edge Solutions/innovation items, Sysco Brand and CatMan products
- Assist with employee training by working with sales to facilitate training sessions and complete demonstrations
- Manage all operations of the test kitchen/culinary center including sanitation, product rotation, laundry service and the organization and upkeep of equipment, displays and the general appearance of the culinary facility.
- Manage test kitchen food and supply costs within budgetary parameters
- Comply with all local and state food safety and health code regulations
- Accompany and respond to regulatory agency kitchen/culinary center inspections
- Provide work direction to additional culinary staff, third party vendors, sanitation staff as necessary
Benefits
- For information on Sysco's Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.com
