Food Service Supply Sales Trainee

Large food service and retail consumer goods products manufacture and distributor seeks to hire a sales rep for the State of Hawaii to call on established retail grocery, drug, C-store and food service accounts. The product line is food service supplies and some specialty food products. The product line has about 2500 items and will require that the sales rep become very familiar with the whole line that will vary in size, shape, texture, color, price and other characteristics. Because most of the items can be very light weight and bulky they are very hard for the client to store so the sales rep will have to make weekly to monthly sales calls to process purchase orders. The company will train someone with light out sales experience. Even though most of the sales calls will be to established accounts that sales rep will need to make cold calls to establish new accounts. So this position is both a farmer (established accounts) and Hunter (new business cold calls), that means that the sales rep will need to be flexible. The main thing the company is looking for is for someone that is willing to really study the product line so that they can make sure the client account gets the right, size, shape and quantity needed.