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Factors that may be used to determine your actual rate of pay include your specific skills, years of experience and other factors.\nBENEFITS INFORMATION:\nFor information on Sysco’s Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.comJob Profile Summary\nThis position is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with local farmers & suppliers with the goal of purchasing and selling their products to FreshPoint customers. The Specialist helps farmers understand food safety requirements as well as forecasting needs, and how FreshPoint can aid in growing their business. The Specialist is also responsible for building and maintaining a customer base with a focus on local produce.\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop and execute targeted sales strategies to achieve region and individual annual business goals, delivering profitable sales growth and penetration\n\nIdentify the needs of customers and prospects to assemble a product mix that delivers solutions and helps achieve business objectives\n\nCommunicate with sales and merchandising teams on market conditions, product availability, new items and applications\n\nCoordinate with buyers to determine which products can be grown by and committed to local farmers\n\nWork collaboratively with Food Safety team to ensure vendors adhere to and maintain required food safety standards\n\nManage new vendor onboarding with insurance, GAP audits, and AS400 farm maintenance\n\nManage local reporting for both OpCo’s, monthly insurance reports, and quarterly Small Supplier reports\n\nConnect with contract customers to ensure chefs receive the local reports, marketing, and product lists to support local purchases\n\nBe informed of market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided\n\nTrack activities and results, collaborate on opportunities, and champion the team selling process through use of Salesforce (Sysco’s CRM tool)\n\nLeverage sampling in a solutions-oriented manner to close sales\n\nProvide feedback on product quality, product integrity, product mix, customer satisfaction, perceived value and competition\n\nDevelop and maintain relationships with customers, chefs and sales team members\n\nSupport execution of prioritized sales strategies through direct selling and engagement of customers and prospects at Sysco events (e.g. food shows, industry events)\n\nUtilize data analytics to prioritize produce opportunities\n\nOther duties as assigned by Manager\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\nEducation/Experience:\nMinimum: High School Diploma or GED and 3+ years of sales experience within a retail, broker, wholesale or distribution environment with a deep technical expertise of producecategories\n\nPreferred: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent educational level\n\nKnowledge & Skills:\nProficiency in produceknowledge and trends required\n\n(Internal Certification & External Certification may be required)\n\nAnalytical problem-solving skills, including familiarity with analyzing reports and deriving insights from data\n\nAbility to express information in terms of profit and loss, food cost and expense ratio\n\nStrong financial acumen and ability to properly plan and execute business plans\n\nFlexible; readily accepts change; open to new ideas\n\nTrack record of success in the area of consultative selling, networking and negotiations\n\nProficient communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with and influence a variety of key stakeholders\n\nExperience building trust with prospective customers and securing new business\n\nStrong business and restaurant operations acumen to manage sophisticated customers\n\nAbility to learn the use of proprietary CRM tools for planning and forecasting sales growth\n\nProficient in Microsoft Applications Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)\n\nProactive and self-directed, with the ability to structure a weekly schedule to be successful\n\nDemonstrated ability to deliver against deadlines and produce high-quality results (accuracy, thoroughness in the deliverables they are producing)\n\nExcellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to execute multiple initiatives at the same time\n\nTravel \nMust be able to travel to operating locations and other destinations as needed - equates to 25-50% of the time\nOVERVIEW:\nSysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. With over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations.\nWe offer our colleagues the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We’re looking for talented, hard-working individuals to join our team. 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