Culinary Sales Manager
Rubix Foods
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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This position works closely with a multidisciplinary team and collaborates with cross-functional internal and external leaders, including but not limited to R&D/Culinary, Q/A & Q/C, Sales, Supply Chain, and Marketing in an effort to align objectives, needs, and activities that will grow the business.
To be successful, you must be self-motivated, flexible, and have a passion for creating positive change in a fast-paced environment. You need to be extremely organized and detail-oriented, while having a balance between creativity and functionality. You need to be an industry leader who is focused on driving disruptive innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Relationships: Primary responsibility for defining, executing, and developing relationship building strategies with customers’ product development teams. Deliver customer insights (strategy, decision-making, and tactics) to the National Account team and company leadership, with a culinary lens.
Team Leadership: Lead and guide internal company teams on project management. Responsible for determining resource allocations on new opportunities.
Planning: Collaborate closely with sales team to develop achievable annual growth plans and sales targets. Shared accountability with sales team to deliver on annual growth and strategic plan.
New Business Development: Support company leadership & internal teams to identify, develop, and commercialize new products, accounts and channels that have a strategic fit within our current capabilities.
Communication: Communicate regularly and effectively on account activity to internal teams.
Culinary Focus: Works closely with the Culinary Development and Marketing Teams on concept & product development.
Product Development: Conduct in-depth menu analysis, complete application development supporting Research and Development team. Support our development process from bench to commercialization for new products, including recipe formulation.
Administration: Manage the administrative, project management, and sales reporting details of this position, including weekly travel schedules and expense management.
Job Specifications
Culinary Sales Experience: Proven track record of building relationships, negotiating, and discovering opportunities with customers.
Culinary Focus: Proven track record working with food service culinary development and marketing departments. Providing new concept development for LTO and core menu development.
Formula Development: Solid knowledge of formula writing to help guide the Culinary Development Team on product development. Minimal bench work.
Understanding of Foodservice Manufacturing: Products, supply chains, and go-to-market approaches.
Business Acumen and Problem-Solving Skills: Demonstrated ability to assess complex situations, make tradeoffs, and deliver complex solutions.
Communication: Demonstrated influence, persuasion, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Relationship Development: Demonstrated relationship development strengths and track record of negotiating and problem solving in various customer cultures.
Travel Willing and able to travel as needed to customer locations and off-site events, as well as various plant locations across the country.
Qualifications Required:
Minimum 5-7 years of culinary sales experience either nationally or regionally
Significant knowledge of proprietary development and customer menu development processes
Entrepreneurial attitude and drive
Conceptual understanding of financial/commercial/margin management
Demonstrated communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
Culinary degree or certificate
Bachelor's degree preferred
Must be based in the Atlanta, Georgia area
Compensation
Commiserate with experience
Retirement and health coverage
About Rubix Foods Rubix Foods is a full-service product development house with end- to-end manufacturing capabilities. We blend culinary creativity, food science, and consumer intelligence to fuel innovation for the industry’s most exciting, high-momentum brands. From concept tocommercialization, we streamline and accelerate the entire product development journey – delivering white-glove service, disciplined execution, and consistent results that raise the bar every time.
Our Vision: To be the food industry’s first call – known for our speed, trusted for our quality, and chosen for our reliability.
Our Mission: To solve the food industry’s toughest problems – creatively, collaboratively, and with unrivaled speed and execution.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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