DeLallo's is seeking candidates for a Local Grocery Sales Executive. The role of the Local Sales Executive is to sell, order, merchandise and manage the products of the George DeLallo Company on a specified route for existing accounts in a geographic territory and to establish new accounts.
Job Description:
- Meet and exceed sales goals
- Acquire and maintain knowledge of all George DeLallo Company products to ensure our reputation as "Being experts in our field."
- Develop and maintain positive business relationships and increase business in new and existing customers in an assigned territory.
- Introduce our customers to new items, shippers, surveys, off-shelf displays, cutting and sampling, promotions, ads, and cross merchandising ideas with the purpose of growing sales.
- Sell, order, stock and merchandise products according to company policies and procedures while maintaining sales profit margins.
- Coordinate sales and deliveries to meet customer's receiving schedule and company transportation schedule.
- Provide store shelf maintenance as it pertains to: credits, tags, TPR's pricing, product and shelf condition, product rotation, plan-o-grams, blocking of products, and use of POS material.
- Seek and develop knowledge and information about competitor activity, pricing and tactics, parity margins and communicate this information to the Local Sales Manager.
- Execute strategies for new business opportunities (concepts, prospecting, lead follow-up, etc.) in new as well as existing customers.