Teams at Strategic Retail Partners

Owns full-cycle recruiting for sales roles, including intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers, and hiring. Partners with sales and HR leaders to define hiring needs, build talent pipelines, manage multiple requisitions, track recruiting metrics, and improve recruiting processes. The role is remote and focuses initially on hiring across Central and Eastern time zones.

Generate sales and product placements within an assigned territory, conduct daily cold calls, build and manage sales pipelines, grow existing accounts, educate store owners, meet sales objectives, and develop customer relationships. The role includes frequent travel and overnight stays, account retention, upselling, cross-selling, issue resolution, and collaboration with internal teams. Candidates need at least two years of relevant sales experience, one year supervising direct reports, a valid driver’s license, and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Develops and closes new grocery retail accounts for balloon and candy gift products. Responsibilities include prospecting, buyer presentations, contract and pricing negotiations, RFP management, trade show participation, promotional coordination, competitive analysis, pipeline tracking, revenue forecasting, and account transition support. The role requires building relationships with grocery buyers and traveling up to 50% for meetings, store visits, and industry events.