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Track assigned opportunities from initial contact through follow-up.\nCustomer relationships: Build professional relationships with existing and prospective customers, provide responsive service, and coordinate support for questions or concerns.\nCross-functional execution: Collaborate with sales leadership, client teams, culinary resources, distributors, and partners to prepare presentations, coordinate follow-up, and advance opportunities.\nMarket awareness: Build knowledge of CORE client portfolios, product applications, sales programs, industry trends, and competitor activity. Share relevant field observations with sales leadership.\nResource and policy management: Manage time, travel, Everlance, samples, sales materials, expenses, and company resources responsibly while meeting documentation, safety, attendance, and policy requirements.\nPerformance Expectations\nMeet assigned sales, activity, portfolio, presentation, distribution, conversion, and client objectives.\nMaintain a productive call cadence, current account information, documented next steps, and consistent follow-through.\nDemonstrate progress in learning CORE’s Seven Step sales process and moving opportunities from prospecting through trial, conversion, and repeat purchase. \nCommunicate opportunities, risks, customer needs, and support requests early while maintaining accurate Salesforce records.\nDisclaimer: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. 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