JOB SUMMARY

The Restaurant Store is looking for Field Marketers to support store sales and customer outreach in District Heights and surrounding areas in Maryland. A Field Marketer with The Restaurant Store is responsible for communicating the advantages of shopping with The Restaurant Stores. Marketers are responsible for customer outreach, providing the customers with an overall summary of how The Restaurant Stores can help them achieve business success. This is a salaried role plus the ability to work towards a performance based bonus structure. Field Marketers are also reimbursed for their mileage.
As a division of Clark Associates, Inc., The Restaurant Store provides the quality, value, and excellent service demanded by today’s busiest restaurateurs and business owners. The Restaurant Store offers customers a selection of over 20,000 items within their brick-and-mortar locations and over 240,000 items through the ecommerce site, TheRestaurantStore.com. Great prices, convenient online ordering, and virtually unlimited supplies make the Restaurant Store a food service professional’s premier source for restaurant supplies and equipment.
We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental insurance, wellness programs, gym membership reimbursement, and a 401k with company match. Employees also enjoy food service industry training from top manufacturers and product experts.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work is performed while standing and/or walking, up to and including 9 hours/day.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.
• Requires the regular use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires regular bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching.
• Requires the ability to regularly lift, carry, push, or pull medium weights, up to 50lbs.

EXPERIENCE

• Applicants must have a clean driving record and valid Driver’s License
• 2+ years experience in food service equipment sales or relevant hospitality experience
• Experience with Microsoft Office/O365 platforms

EDUCATION

This role does not require a degree. We value relevant skills and experience and alignment with our core values above all else.

DESIRED TRAITS & SKILLS

• Field Marketing candidates should embody The Restaurant’s Core Values of Doing the Right Thing, and Enlightened Hospitality.
• A desire to succeed and remain hungry towards performance goals

• Traveling to businesses within the local market in order to increase sales with current customer base while developing new relationships with prospective customers
• Calling or conducting video/virtual meetings with prospective customers to discuss their product needs and develop rapport
• Proper use of Office 365 tools and iOS devices
• Developing a clear understanding of product line offered in-store and GP associated with privately labeled products
• Communicating effectively with the Sales team in order to ensure follow through on leads generated by Field Marketing Representative
• Communicating effectively with Branch management team regarding updates for customer base, including but not limited to new customer prospects and lapsed customers
• Communicating pertinent information to TRS marketing department through established reporting methods
• Planning, organizing, and executing specific marketing and sales programs
• Ability to research and communicate competitor information to sales and inventory teams within branch by providing relevant competitor invoices and identifying where prospective customers are sourcing products from
• Ability to navigate TRS.com intelligently and assist customers in establishing online accounts and setting up quick pick lists