Account Executive - Cruise Department - Military Veterans

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required
• 1 to 5 years of business to business sales experience or food service management experience

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 5+ years foodservice sales and/or restaurant management

Abilities and Skills:

• Ability to have and demonstrate basic business and restaurant operations acumen to manage Customers with multiple units
• Ability to influence key stakeholders across Operating Companies servicing Customers
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and technical procedures
• Ability to understand and interpret customer concerns
• Ability to learn the use of proprietary CRM tools for planning and forecasting sales growth
• Ability to properly plan and execute business plans
• Demonstrated skills in the area of consultative selling, prospecting, networking, and negotiations
• Ability to effectively present information and products to customers
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Ability to express information in terms of profit and loss, food cost and expense ratio
• Ability to solve practical problems
• Knowledge of Microsoft spreadsheet word processing software
• Capable of working with peers and associates from other departments
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task
• Proactive, self-directed, with the ability to structure a weekly schedule to be successful
• To be successful in this position, the individual performing the duties must successfully demonstrate all the individual Framework competencies of this position

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. 
• This positions will require regular travel utilizing personal vehicle and may result in longs periods of sitting.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. 
• Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
•  If working remote, must have required software to ensure timely communications and have a dedicated workspace free of any distractions and participate in conference calls in a business-friendly environment. 
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. 
• Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• This position may require evening and weekend work depending on customer needs

NOTICE:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the environment and the level of work being performed by this job.  This job description in no way states or implies that the duties and responsibilities listed are the only tasks to be performed by the employee in this job. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by his or her supervisor.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description supersedes prior job descriptions.  When duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be reviewed and subject to changes of business necessity.