[Hiring] Meat & Poultry Sales Specialist @Sysco GB

Role Description

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Meat & Poultry Specialist to join the Fresh Specialist team, location is London. This role will help drive and deliver volume, sales and margin growth of specialist Meat & Poultry category, working closely with ASMs, BDMs and Sales Consultants.

• Assist and maximise all sales opportunities within the Region for both New business and share of wallet within this category.
• Find potential new customers by working closely with the teams and training basic knowledge to enable our teams to sell products and find larger opportunities.
• Help increase volume, sales turnover and margin within Chilled & Frozen Meat & Poultry category by working closely with independent sales teams on all customer opportunities.
• Build excellent working relationships with customers, presenting & demonstrating the Meat & Poultry range accurately and professionally.
• Promote the Brakes chilled meat & poultry proposition.
• Work closely with ASMs, BDMs and dedicated telesales specialist to gain and develop new business & SOW.
• Assist with selling through products at risk & reduce waste, plus provide product questions/knowledge/advice.
• Actively participate/contribute to team meetings to train and develop knowledge of Brakes sales teams.
• Accurate completion of weekly & monthly administration.
• Build and maintain a robust pipeline, ensuring all details are captured through Salesforce.
• Maximise selling opportunity by analysis of customers’ requirements & gap fill.
• Continually maintain competitor and market awareness.
• Jointly own and manage personal and career development with line manager.

Qualifications

• Proven product knowledge of the category.
• Ability to perform market research and competitor analysis.
• Passion and enthusiasm to succeed.
• Tenacity to go out and win new business.
• Ability to demonstrate and cook our great steak range for customers.

Requirements

• Confident individual who is people orientated.
• Able to build relationships both internally and externally.

Benefits

• Attractive bonus + benefits.

Company Description

Brakes is built on a passion for food and feeding the nation, and we are the UK’s largest foodservice supplier. Every day, Brakes delivers the highest quality fresh and frozen food and ingredients from our nationwide network of distribution centres to various customers including pubs, restaurants, schools, caterers, care homes, and hospitals.

• 8,000-strong workforce dedicated and proud to be part of this vital provision.
• We’re growing!