Sales Account Manager
Full Time - 1st Shift
Are you looking for a great place to work and a career that will allow you to have a healthy work/life balance? Join our team at Natural Choice Foods, a family-owned company servicing wholesale and retail stores throughout the Midwest.
Natural Choice Foods Values:
- Customer Focused
- Act with a Sense of Urgency
- Quality Focused
- Communication
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Integrity
Here are just some of what NCF has to offer:
- We offer competitive pay
- Health, dental, and vision coverage available your first day of employment
- Life insurance
- 401(k) available at 6 months, including a company match
- Incentive Plan
- PTO
- Weekly pay
- Employee discounts
Job Summary:
The Sales Account Manager is primarily responsible for selling products while maintaining and growing customer relationships through phone and email interactions. Success for this role means reaching established targets/quotas through excellent telephone sales and communications skills. To be effective in this role self-motivation, time-management, customer record maintenance, product knowledge, and passion are essential. This position could also require some travel to new/potential customers, markets, and territories.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Maintain and grow current customer portfolio
- Active and consistent participation in Sales Team meetings and activities
- Maintain proficiency in product knowledge and offerings
- Interact professionally with other employees, customers, and vendors
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
- Work effectively as a team contributor in achieving targets
- Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other team members
- Be detail-oriented, honest, direct, and able to handle more than one task simultaneously while managing one’s time effectively and maintaining a strong work ethic.
Sales Competencies:
- Negotiating, Persuading, Closing
- Product Knowledge, Credibility
- Tenacity, Focus, Resilience
- Time Management
- Issue Resolution, Customer Retention
- Teamwork, Communication, Interpersonal Skills
- Willingness to Learn, Develop, Navigate Ambiguity
Work Environment:
The work is generally performed in an office environment. Frequent telephone and computer use are required.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential tasks.
Required Educational Skills and Qualifications:
- Associates Degree or education and experience equivalent
- 3-5 years proven sales experience
- Basic computer proficiency (Microsoft applications or data-based systems)
- Ability to work independently, under pressure, and in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to management and other employees of the organization.
- Possess excellent time management skills
- Be detail-oriented, honest, direct, and able to handle more than one task at a time while managing one’s time effectively and maintaining a strong work ethic
- Display confidence, be outgoing, self-motivated, and possess a strong work ethic
- Possess strong organizational skills and works from a plan
- Provides thorough and accurate reporting
- Have excellent listening & communication skills
PLEASE NOTE: This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and the Company reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed as circumstances change.
