Business Development Manager (Key Accounts) -- Food Service

Are you a results-driven professional with a passion for building meaningful business relationships and driving revenue growth? Liquid Environmental Solutions (LES) is seeking a dynamic and innovative Key Account Manager – Food Service to lead the charge in cultivating long-term partnerships with national accounts. In this pivotal role, you’ll leverage your consultative selling expertise to identify customer needs, tailor impactful solutions, and execute sales strategies that align with our mission of excellence. If you’re ready to achieve ambitious goals and thrive in a collaborative environment, LES offers the opportunity to shape your future while making a difference. Competitive compensation, growth potential, and a chance to work with industry leaders await you—let’s redefine success together!

Summary:

The objective of the Business Development Manager (called "Key Account Manager – Food Service" at Liquid Enviro) position is to achieve revenue and profit plans/goals. This position is required to create new business relationships and cultivate long-term business partnerships with national account prospects and customers.

Compensation: OTE between $110 and 130k (salary and commission)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain outstanding professional business relationships with key executive level decision-making contact(s) and multiple/various coaches, implementers and influencers within current national account base.
• Utilize consultative selling skills to learn about the prospect’s business and marketplace, the existing service needs of the business, and the decision maker’s individual, corporate and/or departmental needs to position LES products and services as the answer to the existing needs.
• Develop enhancements/updates to an existing LES services management program to meet the identified needs of current or prospective customers.
• Motivate and move the decision maker(s) to desired decisions, next actions or next steps in the sales cycle.
• Prepare and present LES value proposition, services management program proposals, presentations, price quotes and RFP responses that demonstrate an understanding of the customer/prospect needs, that illustrate features, advantages and benefits of LES services as an answer to the customer/prospect needs, and that profitably position LES services to address the identified customer/prospect needs.
• Responsible for the creation, delivery and presentation of Quarterly Service Reports.
• Negotiate contracts and contract renewals.
• Develop, update, maintain and execute an approved territory sales plan that includes developing target account prospects, their sales cycle plans, their projected revenue, their projected decision dates, and their projected implementation/first service dates.
• Develop and maintain a sales pipeline in excess of $7.5 Million.
• Schedule sales appointments to maintain a weekly average of seven in-person sales meetings with specific objectives that start, continue or close a sales cycle and/or start, maintain or further develop the business relationship with a prospect/customer.
• Work within Company CRM tool to document all sales activity and manage pipeline.
• Responsible for the leadership/management of implementations of new locations and/or new lines of business to effectively manage and communicate customer expectations throughout the LES organization to insure a successful rollout.
• Complete and submit a weekly sales call plan, a weekly sales call results report, a weekly target account update and a monthly sales plan update.
• Work within the pricing, products and services guidelines established by the company.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the field operations team and corporate support staff. Work within the Company’s Policies, Procedures and Handbook guidelines.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the activities enumerated above.
• Ensure all prospect/customer calls and emails are returned within 4 hours of receipt of initial communication.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements:

· Experience prospecting, selling and managing accounts in a national sales territory demonstrating strong time and territory planning skills.

· Experience in the creation and execution of annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly sales territory plans.

· Experience and demonstrated success in managing and selling a blend of large accounts from both an annual revenue ($100,000 per account) and number of locations (15-500 per account) perspective. Significant experience working via appointments and demonstrated success in getting appointments via the telephone.

· Experience and comfort with, and an ability to utilize consultative sales skills.

· A strong understanding of the sales cycle required to sell large multi-location accounts. ·

· Experience and success in account penetration sales (departments/locations/divisions, and products/services).

· Experience in creating and leading successful account growth and management strategies/plans including account penetration, service, maintenance and retention, as well as being the primary manager of the business relationship with the contact(s) and customer.

· Demonstrated successes in short, medium and long business service sales cycles.

· Demonstrated successes in leading new sales program implementations in multi-location accounts.

· Thorough understanding of, and previous formal classroom environment training in, Consultative Selling Skills, Professional Selling Skills, Strategic Selling Skills, Tactical Selling Skills, Account Management and/or any other formal business to business sales skills (not product) training (must be able to name them).

· Team selling experience where the candidate was the selling team leader.

· Exceptional listening skills.

· Strong proposal and presentation development, and delivery skills. Strong written and oral communications skills.

· Professional appearance and demeanor.

· Conversational approach with prospects and customers.

· Experience achieving weekly sales activities guidelines.

· Attention to detail and highly organized.

Education and/or Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Required).

· Four (4) years of outside business-to-business sales experience with at least two (2) years of multi-location/regional/national account sales experience within: Restaurant, Grocery, Retail Industry (Required)

· Must be able to demonstrate a consistent history of attaining monthly, quarterly and annual revenue plans/goals. Must have had, and attained actual annual, quarterly and monthly revenue plans/goals.

Liquid Environmental Solutions is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or disability.

Equal opportunity employer M/F/disability/veteran.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus opportunities
• Commission pay
• Yearly bonus

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience with multi-location/regional/national account sales experience within: Restaurant, Grocery, Retail Industry? If so, briefly describe that experience, or relatable experience.
• Can you provide at least two professional references who would speak on behalf of your qualifications and experience?

Experience:

• B2B Sales: 3 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Irving, TX 75063: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Irving, TX 75063