Specialist, Premium Protein

at  Sysco

Sysco seeks an experienced sales professional focused on expanding new business, particularly in the meat and seafood categories.
The goal is to achieve specific business objectives while enhancing the customer experience. This will be achieved by maintaining industry and category-specific certifications and directly selling these categories to customers. Sales specialists will prioritize their time, targets, and collaborative efforts based on market insights and data analytics.

QUALIFICATIONS - Education/Experience:

• Minimum: High School Diploma or GED and 3+ years of sales experience within a retail, broker, wholesale or distribution environment (deep technical expertise of meat & seafood categories).
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent educational level

• Develop and execute targeted meat & seafood sales strategies to achieve region and individual annual business goals, delivering profitable sales growth and penetration across categories, specialty segments, and Sysco brand.
• Identify the needs of customers and prospects to assemble a product mix that delivers solutions and helps achieve business objectives.
• Utilize data analytics for strategic decision-making.
• Be informed of market conditions, product innovations, and competitors’ products, prices, and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided.
• Track activities and results, collaborate on opportunities, and champion the team selling process through use of Salesforce.
• Leverage sampling in a solutions-oriented manner to close sales.

QUALIFICATIONS - Education/Experience:

• Minimum: High School Diploma or GED and 3+ years of sales experience within a retail, broker, wholesale or distribution environment (deep technical expertise of meat & seafood categories).
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent educational level.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the environment and the level of work being performed by this job. This job description in no way states or implies that the duties and responsibilities listed are the only tasks to be performed by the associate in this job. The associate will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by his or her supervisor. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description supersedes prior job descriptions. When duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and is subject to changes of business necessity.