Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Type:
Salary
Rate:
Range $33,600.00 - $45,100.00
Work Schedule
Flexible
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Employee Discounts
Professional development opportunities
Employee wellness programs
Job Description
Sysco Grand Rapids, LLC is a key part of Sysco Corporation, the global leader in foodservice distribution. Sysco boasts a vast network of over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of more than 13,000 vehicles, operating around 333 distribution facilities worldwide. This network enables Sysco to serve more than 700,000 customer locations, providing unparalleled service and product availability to a diverse range of foodservice businesses. sysco's strong market presence and reputation are built on a commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction, making it an ideal workplace for professionals seeking advancement in the foodservice industry. The company focuses on nurturing talent,... Show More
Job Requirements
- High school diploma or GED
- 3+ years executive chef experience in the foodservice industry
- Ability to maintain industry and category-specific certification
- Proficiency in culinary and restaurant operations
- Strong financial and business acumen
- Ability to use CRM tools such as Salesforce
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Experience in consultative selling and networking
- Organizational and project management skills
- Compliance with local and state food safety and health regulations
Job Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED and 3+ years executive chef experience in the foodservice industry
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent culinary degree preferred
- 3+ years of foodservice sales experience preferred
- Proficiency in culinary, restaurant operations, and food trends
- Internal certification and external certification may be required
- Ability to express information in terms of profit and loss, food cost and expense ratio
- Strong financial acumen and ability to properly plan and execute business plans
- Track record of success in consultative selling and networking
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience building trust with prospective customers
- Proactive and self-directed with ability to structure weekly schedule
- Demonstrated ability to deliver against deadlines and produce high-quality results
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Strong business and restaurant operations acumen
- Flexible and open to new ideas
- Proficiency in basic level math
- Ability to learn proprietary CRM tools for planning and sales forecasting
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Understanding of marketing principles, product lines, ordering procedures and Sysco's credit terms
Job Duties
- Develop and execute targeted culinary strategies to achieve individual and region annual business goals, delivering profitable sales growth and penetration across categories, specialty segments, and Sysco brand
- 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 to help grow customer business and drive case growth
- 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
Job Qualifications
Experience
Mid Level (3-7 years)
Job Location
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