Top Food Sales Jobs in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN

Cultivate US-based corporate and major donors, manage donor engagement and stewardship timelines, develop partnership opportunities and employee activations, create compelling proposals and impact materials, and represent Food4Education at relevant conferences. The role supports annual fundraising goals, manages communications for approximately 100 prospective and current donors, and works closely with the Head of US Philanthropy to recruit corporate partners and raise funds.

Manage the Whole Foods Market and UNFI business by supporting sales strategy, joint business planning, product launches, promotions, merchandising, forecasting, and retail execution. Analyze Nielsen, Vendor Central, and UNFI data to identify growth opportunities, monitor performance, improve inventory and in-stock results, and optimize trade investments. Collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Development, and Insights to drive distribution, market share, profitability, and omnichannel growth.

Leads regional distribution and foodservice sales strategy, enterprise account development, channel partnerships, forecasting, pricing, and revenue growth. Manages distributor and broker relationships, negotiates contracts, oversees trade spend and account profitability, and leads a team of Sales Managers. Partners with Marketing, QA, and Operations on product launches, cold-chain standards, and customer feedback. Requires travel up to 50% to visit partners, accounts, and industry events.

Manage and grow sales across a large territory serving food and beverage, VMS, and dietary supplement accounts. Develop territory strategies, nurture existing customers, convert new accounts, achieve sales and budget goals, monitor market trends, and collaborate cross-functionally to advance Minerals and Nutrients products. The role requires strong industry relationships, technical product knowledge, negotiation, presentation, planning, and independent territory management skills.

Leads distributor networks and regional sales performance across New England. Responsibilities include executing business plans, managing territory P&L, forecasting sales, developing retail accounts, improving distribution and merchandising, coordinating promotions, conducting business reviews, and managing distributor resources. The role also coaches employees, oversees administrative processes, and travels extensively throughout the assigned territory.

Manage national convenience and drug-channel accounts, brokers, sales plans, customer business plans, trade spend, negotiations, promotional execution, and profitability targets. Build relationships with large multi-state chains, conduct business reviews, analyze syndicated data, identify growth opportunities, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver revenue, market share, margin, and retention goals. The role requires approximately 60% travel for customer and broker relationship management.

Generate qualified sales opportunities through prospect research, multichannel outreach, meeting scheduling, and collaboration with growth, marketing, and sales teams. Manage prospects and opportunities in Salesforce while using Outreach, Gong, Sales Navigator, Excel, and Google Workspace. Monitor market trends, improve outbound strategies, and consistently meet or exceed sales goals.

The Partner Director drives prospecting, complex sales cycles, proposals, and revenue growth for strategic restaurant partnerships. Responsibilities include executive relationship building, account expansion, forecasting, quota planning, Salesforce pipeline management, data-driven recommendations, AI-enabled sales process development, thought leadership, peer coaching, hiring involvement, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires independently converting prospects into long-term partnerships and shaping scalable sales playbooks.

Develop and execute local new-business strategies for foodservice prospects, using analytics and Salesforce to prioritize leads, build sales plans, negotiate contracts, coordinate proposals, and secure new accounts. Collaborate with cross-functional sales teams, brokers, and distributors to address prospect needs, shorten sales cycles, and transition customers during onboarding. Track sales objectives, maintain accurate CRM data, monitor industry trends, identify growth opportunities, and present insights to senior management.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle across UK and European retail, grocery, pharmacy, quick commerce, and logistics accounts. Build pipeline through outbound prospecting, develop C-level relationships, conduct operational discovery, shape solutions with product and engineering, manage procurement and security reviews, negotiate contracts, and close complex deals exceeding $1M ARR. Maintain disciplined CRM forecasting, provide market feedback, and help establish a repeatable regional enterprise sales motion.