Sales Manager Rumi Spice
- Date Posted December 09, 2017
- Location Chicago, IL
- Category Business
- Job type Full-Time
Rumi partners with Afghan farmers to grow and distribute the world's best saffron. We are former Army officers who served combat tours in Afghanistan. Since leaving the military, my cofounders and I feel we still have unfinished business to support Afghanistan and its people. We founded Rumi Spice to work directly with Afghan farmers to import exceptionally high quality saffron. In Afghanistan, we’ve hired 384 Afghan women, stood up our three processing facilities, and have over 90 farmers in our network. Rumi saffron now graces the tables and kitchens of The French Laundry, Daniel, Le Bernardin, Bouley, NAHA, and the Culinary Institute of America. You can skim our website www.rumispice.com or read some of the latest articles that came out on us: New York Times Food & Wine
Job descriptionOur Ideal Candidate:
- Highly entrepreneurial and “scrappy” – able to manage your own sales budget
- Results-driven and execution-oriented
- 3-6 years of sales experience in the natural food/beverage channel with ample pre-existing relationships with buyers and strong familiarity with category review schedules
Job Description:
- Growing topline sales by at least 80% through focus on natural retail channel, and also with option for food service and wholesale
- Designing and managing internal sales reporting
- Develop comprehensive sales story backed with sell-through data and demonstrated financial value to retailers/customers
- Presenting new products to (and submitting paperwork for) key natural/conventional retail accounts during category reviews or off-cycle
- Key account promotional planning and execution – demos, distributor promotions, event-planning
- Hire and train brand ambassadors for product demos
- Interviewing and managing network of regional brokers
- Provide analysis and strategic recommendations for pricing, promotional, and product changes to respond to market conditions
- Represent at trade shows and expos
For more information, contact kimberly@rumispice.com and check out our website www.rumispice.com
Compensation this position is : salaried, varies DOE, $55,000.00 - $65,000.00 Application instructions