What are the responsibilities and job description for the Outside Sales Representative position at URM Stores Inc?
Description
URM Stores, Inc. is seeking its next Outside Sales Representative (OSR) to join our Foodservice team. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a winning team that has fun every day at work. Bring us your passion for food and your hard work ethic, and we’ll provide an amazing team to be a part of! Through this winning combination you’ll be able to help foodservice operators succeed by providing top quality ingredients and exceptional service. The OSR works on the front line of the food industry, meeting daily with Chefs and other purchasers as the face of URM and all our foodservice customers. We are an integral part of this food community, and we love what we do. Come join us!
This position will support our customers within the Tri-Cities area.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and acquire new customers through cold calling and making effective face-to-face presentations.
- Crush your margin goals and hit your sales budgets!
- Effectively collaborate with a variety of people in internal and external departments.
- Must be comfortable meeting with prospects and customers.
- Turn those potential prospects into customers.
- Make regular sales and service calls on existing foodservice accounts.
- Build regular customers into higher volume accounts.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years of direct foodservice sales experience strongly preferred.
- Previous sales experience in a related industry preferred.
- Culinary experience is preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in foodservice Industry a plus.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Valid Driver’s License and a clean driving record.
- Bi-lingual a huge bonus!
You Belong Here!
We are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest. Since 1921 URM has been a retailer-owned business. URM’s core business is the purchasing, warehousing, and delivery of merchandise inventory to its Member-Owners. The shareholders of URM are all retail grocers who provide groceries to their local communities. URM operates on a cooperative basis, which means that all its net earnings on business done with or for its member-owners through its Patronage Departments are allocated and paid to its Member-Owners in the form of patronage dividends. Over the years, sales volume has grown to over $1 billion and employment to over 2,900 employees at URM and its subsidiaries—Rosauers Supermarkets and Peirone Produce.
We work in a supportive team environment and in addition to our amazing culture, our employees enjoy many perks, and below are a few of the highlights of our complete compensation package:
- Salary starting at $85,000 annually DOE. This position will switch to a commission-based salary structure that will be discussed during the interview process. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.
- Insurance Benefits – So that our non-union employees have more to take home from their paycheck, URM pays 100% of the Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance premiums for the employee and over 93% for the employee’s dependents!
- 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match up to 9% of your annual salary!
- Gas Card Provided!
- Company Car Provided!
- Subsidized Life Insurance for employees and great rates for the employee’s family.
- Company paid Long-Term Disability insurance.
- Short-Term Disability and Cancer Insurance available.
- Life Flight Insurance at Special Rate.
- Great vacation plan!
- Six Paid Holidays and three Paid Personal Holidays.
- Paid Sick Days.
- Paid Volunteer Service Day! Get paid to volunteer at your favorite non-profit!
- Experience enjoyable Company sponsored activities through events like URM March Madness Brackets, Family Hockey Night with the Chiefs, Holiday Mingle & Jingle with great raffle giveaways, Summer Evening Wine & Music Event, and Winter Break Movie Night, which are just a glimpse of the fun we have to offer for employees and their families!
- Plus, enjoy a variety of Corporate discounts, from gym memberships, cell phone plans, to computer discounts!
- We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!
URM Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, Service in the Uniformed Services, or any other classification protected by state or federal law. We are also committed to providing a work environment that is free of all forms of discrimination, regarding recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and all other conditions of employment. The selected candidate must be able to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, and drug test, as URM is a drug free workplace.
Salary : $85,000
