Position Summary:

Facilitate, order and delivery interaction between food service customers and Halperns’ Steak & Seafood. Seeks growth opportunities in existing customers and brings new customers to Halperns’ Steak & Seafood. Represent Halperns’ products and services and manages customer business relationship.

• Manage customer orders
• Acquire new customers
• Develop and maintain customer relationships
• Manage customer accounts receivables within guidelines
• Effective execution of the Selling Cycle
• Develop negotiations strategy
• Develop pricing strategies
• Leverage resources to increase growth
• Deliver effective presentations
• Conduct customer business reviews
• Maintain knowledge of industry through industry magazines and local culinary organizations
• Demonstrate and deliver understanding of Foodservice Industry and operations
• Understand areas of customer focus, including Sales Building, Staffing, Profitability, and Compliance
• Demonstrate effective sampling
• Explain key features and benefits of Halperns’ products
• Understand and leverage advantages of Halperns’ branded products
• Explain Value Added concepts to customers
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• This position requires customer focus with comprehensive communication skills and the ability to express self verbally.
• Must be a strategic thinker, inquisitive, innovative, and creative in order to build relationships, network, link resources and apply business practices.
• Works effectively in teams and display integrity and honesty to participate and contribute to branch team efforts.
• Must be goal driven, have good organizational and administration skills in order to self manage and develop discipline and be flexible and coachable.
• Must be able to meet and exceed sales performance goals and execute good time and territory management.
• Ability to adapt to frequent changes in program function or new applications

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