Job Title: Market Sales Representative
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Why work for Dawn Foods?
PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.
Why should you apply? We invest in you!
- Industry-leading health insurance and well-being coverage after 1 month
- Competitive Pay
- Generous company retirement benefit contributions
- 3 Weeks of Vacation to Start
- Professional training
- professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs
- An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
- Family-owned business over 100 years in service
Job Purpose and Overview
This is a field travel position that covers the Mississauga Territory.
Dawn’s Market Sales Representative position is responsible for developing customer relationships and delivering mutually profitable sales activity within the defined territory. This is an exciting customer-facing role that is expected to provide exceptional service, product knowledge, and customer satisfaction. Successful MSRs achieve results through developing and maintaining consultative partnerships and effectively addressing bakery customer needs by identifying profitable opportunities with existing customers and successfully prospecting new accounts.
Dawn’s MSRs are outside sales representatives responsible for managing a territory that is directly associated with a distribution center and greater commercial region. Within their territory, they are focused on promoting Dawn’s products, services, online ordering capabilities, and expanded portfolio of bakery solutions. They report directly to a Market Sales Manager.
What will you do as a Market Sales Representative at Dawn Foods?
- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with baking industry customers across assigned territory
- Provide on-site consultation and sales expertise
- Achieve profitable sales growth within the assigned territory
- Develop and maintain profitable sales through prospecting new customers, penetrating existing accounts, and minimizing lost business
- Calculate margins, negotiate terms, and prepare estimates and bids using Dawn’s pricing models to meet specific customer needs
- Represent, explain, and promote the entire Dawn value proposition
- Use Technology to drive Dawn’s business, including the following:
- Promote and demonstrate Dawn’s online ordering platform and capabilities to drive growth and expand customer base
- Document sales funnel activities and utilize enterprise CRM (Salesforce)
- Educate customers on the usage of our payment portal
- Demonstrates and develops end-user understanding of customer-facing technology and applications
- Understand, explain, and implement Dawn’s credit policies and terms with customers
- Remain aware of and navigate relevant regional market conditions, product trends, innovation, and competitors’ products and activity
- Develop and maintain a collaborative approach across teams and functions to build sales for the region, remain on budget, and maintain efficient costs
- Perform associated administrative duties, such as maintaining accurate sales records, preparing reports, and filing expense reports
- Participate within experiential learning opportunities to expand sales capabilities and product knowledge and applies that product knowledge in customer interactions to drive sales.
- Demonstrate Dawn’s Values and support the Dawn Circle of Excellence
What Does It Take to Be a Market Sales Representative at Dawn Foods?
- At least 5 years of previous customer-facing, outside sales experiences
- Successful consultative sales experiences within B2B foodservice or similar distribution models
- Working knowledge of bakery products, ingredients, raw materials, and baking supplies
- Working knowledge of bakery operations
- Demonstrative ability to navigate multiple software applications, user interfaces, and digital technologies
- Working knowledge of digital CRM solutions (i.e., Salesforce)
- Motivated self-starter able to work autonomously with limited supervision
- Able to effectively communicate and collaborate with colleagues and customers
- Able to engage others while maintaining a personable, consultative approach for superior customer service
- Able to read, write, verbally communicate, and comprehend the English language
- Able to effectively manage time within a schedule of competing priorities and tasks
- Able to understand and calculate sales and margins
- Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and PowerPoint
- Motivated by results, execution, and a “finish line focus”
- Position requires extensive local travel; Valid Driver's License and safe, satisfactory driving record
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, and/or Culinary Arts or equivalent experiences preferred
- Demonstrative understanding of and/or hands-on experiences with bakery products, raw materials, and baking supplies preferred
- Enhanced knowledge of and/or hands-on experiences within bakery operations preferred
Physical Demands & Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
- Required to exert physical effort in handling objects 25 pounds.
Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than what is documented here.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”
Compensation: $68,100 - $102,150 with a Potential Annual Bonus
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 36073