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Wise Foods, Inc. District Sales Manager-Virginia Beach in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Wise Snacks is seeking a District Sales Manager for the Virginia Beach Area. The primary purpose of this role is to develop a Sales team (both Employees or Independent Distributors) that ensure execution in the different channels in their territory according to Wise standards and performance expectations as well as ensuring growth on territory profitability. With an overall goal to increase sales and profits:
You'll develop the Sales Force
Train Sales team on Wise Execution Standards
Train the proper methods of merchandising
Teach the execution of planograms
Develop Customer based relationship
Communicate on time and properly: Promotions, New Products and sales incentives
You'll ensure Executions Standards on all stores
Maximize the use of space to increase sales
Seek and secure all opportunities for incremental sales
Show the proper use of POS to drive sales
Ensure servicing the stores accordingly to their sales to eliminate Out of Stock
You'll ensure growth in a profitable way.
Ensure each route has enough stores to be sustainable
Growth routes in order to split off and have new routes to increase service and sales
Intelligent and tactical use of discounts for customer and jobber to maximize sales
Set up and manage a route to reduce cost: RTM, Time Management, Educate on Good business practices
MINIMALLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES have the following:
2 years in DSD (Direct Store Delivery) sales experience
1 year managerial experience (i.e. merchandisers)
Good numerical skills.
Prior supermarket sales experience
Microsoft Office experience.
IDEAL CANDIDATES also have the following:
Bachelor's degree.
Prior food or salty snack industry experience.
+3 years managerial experience.
+5 years Customer Service Industry
+5 Years' experience with supermarket channel.
About Wise:
Wise Foods Inc. ("Wise" or "the Company") is a leading producer of salty snacks with a long heritage. Founded in 1921, Wise is a brand of tradition and authenticity that consumers have come to know and trust over the last 90 years. Since our inception, our iconic brand has symbolized great tasting snacks for many generations of consumers including potato chips; cheese flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings and other assorted snacks. We market our products under some of the most recognizable brand names in the salty snack industry, including Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli and Bravos. We also produce private label products for a number of retailers. Products are distributed using a direct-store-door ("DSD") delivery and merchandising system and sold in major grocery retailers, neighborhood markets and urban bodegas, as well as established retailers in the mass, convenience store, drug, food service and club channels. Wise Foods is fully owned by Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. We invite you to explore growing your career with Wise!