Catering Sales Manager - JWR
Orange, CT
Full Time
Leap Brands
Senior Manager/Supervisor
Our client is a growing national brand who is expanding their catering operation and has a need for a sales-focused leader who can manage a team of catering sales managers, full-service catering program, create and develop a diverse client list, delegate tasks to ensure successful execution, and work seamlessly with the operations and marketing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Leads a team of Catering Sales Specialists
- Responsible to achieve goals for 3rd party sales, large catering venues and additional corporate industries
- Manage relationship with all 3rd party relationships, Growing, Maintain it
- Creates and delivers all training curriculum as assigned pertaining to the sales team role.
- Executes all Catering Sales Specialists duties, including direct selling when needed.
- Provides support of sales team as requested with the day-to-day routines.
- Troubleshoots escalated issues regarding eMarket, CRM, and POS.
- Increases sales in all restaurants in assigned territory to meet budgeted sales plan.
- Forecasts future catering opportunities to reach business plan goals.
- Partner with cross functional teams to develop short term and long term sales strategies
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 5 years of catering sales experience
- 3+ years of managing sales team
- Strong understanding of business goals and applying techniques and strategies to expedite the achievement of those goals.
- Experience interacting and creating relationships with internal and external customers of all levels and skill sets.
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