Gourmet Food Sales Associate Job in Palm Springs, California US
Are You Passionate About Food?
The Chefs’ Warehouse is one of the leading gourmet food distributors offering a broad line of quality, gourmet food products to fine restaurants, caterers, country clubs and other high end hospitality providers.
Looking for excited, passionate, and driven Sales people with a proven track record of opening new business and maximizing profitable sales.
- Responsibilities include promoting and selling a diverse, high end product line.
- Compiles lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from newspapers, business directories, industry ads, trade shows, Internet Web sites, and other sources.
- Travels throughout assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit orders, or talks with customers or by phone.
- Displays or demonstrates product, using samples or catalog, and emphasizes salable features.
- Quotes prices and credit terms and prepares sales contracts for orders obtained.
- Estimates date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of own firm's production and delivery schedules.
- Prepares reports of business transactions and keeps expense accounts.
- Works with inside sales representatives to keep account activities and literature up to date.
- Tracks stock levels.
- Enters new customer data and other sales data for current customers into computer database.
- Develops and maintains relationships with purchasing contacts.
- Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.
- Mentors with Senior to obtain institutional knowledge concerning products, processes and systems.
- Sales Associates will adapt the process of cultivating and producing sales revenue through the development and growth of new sales and by increasing sales with existing accounts.
- Qualified candidates will have 1 - 5 years outside sales experience within the food industry (strongly desired, perishable foods preferred).
- Past experience working as a Chef highly desired!
- High energy, enthusiastic hunters are encouraged to send a resume.
- We offer competitive compensation packages, medical benefits, and 401K.
The Chefs’ Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.