Sales Representative - 18-month contract
Requisition ID: 185416
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Wholesale Sales Atlantic
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: New Brunswick
City: Moncton, St. John
Location: Home Office - NB
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for passionate new talent! We are currently looking for a Sales Representative to join our team. The Sales Representative is responsible for new customer development and providing counsel visits to stores ensuring that we maintain and grow sales and profits while achieving weekly sales and revenue objectives. Actively contribute to a positive and productive working environment.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Provide regular sales visits to stores
- Responsible for increasing sales and profitability as per budget
- Provide sales counseling to customers and national accounts
- Responsible to present service, sales programs and special products to customers
- Take sales orders and pickup cheques as required
- Provide exceptional customer service to meet customer needs and ensuring continued customer loyalty
- Present new potential customers an overall sales program including all services and pricing
- Provide overall merchandising and operations assistance for store setup
- Inform management on competitive activity and market changes
- Responsible to keep accounts receivables within our credit terms
- Maintain a clean and safe work environment as per Company requirements
- Other duties as required
What you have to offer:
- Proficient use of the Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and meet objectives
- Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
- Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to develop and maintain customer base
- Effective problem solving skills
- Self-motivated
- Two to three years experience at the wholesale and retail levels within the
- Grocery industry a strong asset
- 2+ years in sales in an account management type role with some business development experience
- Proven track record hitting sales targets
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.