Sales Representative Foodservice - VIC

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Melbourne, Victoria
Entry level
Food • Retail • Agriculture • Manufacturing
At McCain Foods we know the importance that food plays in people's lives.
The Role
As a Sales Representative at McCain Foods, you will generate sales, develop strong business relationships, manage accounts, and report on business outcomes. This role includes conducting product presentations, maintaining key accounts, and ensuring adherence to corporate policies. You will work both independently and as part of a team to support the foodservice industry.
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Position Title: Sales Representative Foodservice - VIC
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Melbourne
Grade: Grade 04
Requisition ID: 32932
At McCain Foods, we invite you to join our team and be a part of something truly special. As a Sales Representative, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact in the foodservice industry. You'll empower small and medium-sized businesses to thrive, contribute to our regional growth, and provide exceptional customer service.
This role is dedicated to serving the Eastern Suburbs VIC and Regional Southern NSW.
About the role

  • Sales Generation - Maintain and develop strong business relationships with allocated business, generate new business and manage accounts.
  • Business Relationships - Initiate and ensure a responsive approach to the sales marketing territory requirements.
  • Reporting Business Outcomes - Ensuring pro-active reporting of all sales requirements
  • Corporate Citizenship - Ensure adherence to all corporate policies including agreements and approval processes, pricing and quotations, expense reporting and use of standard terms and conditions
  • Teamwork - Contribute as an effective member of the Foodservice Team including mentoring new staff, contributing to team outcomes/goals, developing and maintaining effective communication.
  • Distributors - Conduct "cook-ups" and product presentations and visit distributors as per call cycle.
  • End-users - Visit end-users as per call cycle. Conduct product presentation and cook-ups as required. Launch new SKU's as directed by State Field Sales Manager. Maintain key accounts.
  • Other - Completing call cycle planning and updating customer databases. Ad hoc support as directed by the State Field Sales Manager.


About you

  • Previous experience as a Sales Representative or similar role within the foodservice industry - Desirable
  • Self-starter - motivated to seek action beyond specific position responsibilities
  • Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
  • A strong team player, with the ability to relate to and build relationships with all levels of the organisation
  • Good organisational skills - efficiently schedule own time and activities to meet all project time frames
  • Good Microsoft Office skills including the ability to analyse some business data and report outcomes.
  • Capacity to work autonomously
  • Demonstrated ability to participate as part of a challenging team environment.
  • Australian Drivers Licence - Mandatory


Why join McCain?

  • Opportunity to be a part of a global iconic brand, fun & high performing team
  • Flexible working for work-life balance
  • Employee & Family Assistance Program
  • Pioneering, innovative and dedicated development programs
  • Education Assistance Programs
  • Opportunity to Chip In and give back to the community as part of our paid volunteer program each year


If you're ready to take on this exciting journey with us, we'd love to have you on board. Join McCain Foods and help us shape the future of foodservice
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy Policy
Job Family: Sales
Division: ANZ
Department: Foodservice Field Team VIC TAS
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.

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HQ: Florenceville-Bristol, NB
20,000 Employees
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Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.

We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.

Why Work With Us

We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.

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