What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Sales - Club/Value position at American Foods Group, LLC?
Overview
Position : Director of Sales- Club / Value / All Other
Working Location : Remote
Working at American Foods Group, LLC (AFG) gives you the unique opportunity to become part of a large, growing company that maintains a down-to-earth atmosphere. AFG is a family business, with a long tradition of providing quality meat products to our customers. It's a place where you can develop your career to the fullest, while working in a friendly environment.
Job Summary
Our Specialty Meats team has a unique opening for a dynamic leader to drive the growth and success of our Club and Value channels. We're looking for a successful leader who has a strong sense of ownership and thrives in a hands-on environment. In this role, you'll be primarily responsible for growing and expanding retail sales of further processed meats in these important strategic channels. Your main focus will be on activities that drive incremental sales and profit. This position combines responsibilities in customer engagement, headquarters collaboration and broker management.
Key Responsibilities :
- Define and execute strategies in alignment with the further processed business objectives.
- Ensure top-line and bottom-line performance while fostering excellence through account penetration, cross-category growth, and strategic client relationships.
- Lead and inspire team to reach targets and objectives.
- Review and make recommendations to VP of Sales on proposed initiatives, projects, and investments to ensure alignment with overall AFG Specialty strategy.
- Achieve sales volume and spending budgets while maintaining promotional spend, deductions and forecasting accuracy.
- Drive customer account pipeline growth and new account penetration.
- Strengthen customer relationships with existing accounts, including directly managing high-priority account relationships.
- Drive coordination with the product management team to ensure seamless process for new product development projects, including supporting the right prioritization of projects and productivity improvements.
- Oversee innovation pipeline for new product development projects with the PM lead, ensuring right products being developed, clear pipeline in place and aligned with the Specialty BU.
- Leverage AFG's portfolio of products to introduce new value-added ideas to your customers.
- Collaborate with customers to create plans and strategies that align with their objectives.
- Leverage insights to identify opportunities for your customers.
- Provide competitive market intelligence and feedback on new products launches.
- Solid leadership and direction of broker network on objectives and sales expectations.
- Proactive development, training, and management of broker network.
- Work closely with internal teams, such as marketing, product management and product development, to deliver solutions that meet client needs.
- Maximize sales margins by monitoring and assisting with A / R, pricing, deductions, etc.
- Ensure accurate forecasts are in place to support your business.
- Maintain accurate records of customer interactions, agreements, and project details.
- NOTE : this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications (Required) :
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
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