Key Account Manager

About The Chefs' Warehouse
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 35 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 2,000 artisan producers of the world’s finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 35,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Mission: The mission of The Chefs’ Warehouse is to provide the world’s greatest ingredients to the world’s best chefs.

Our C.H.E.F.S. Values:

Curious & Creative

Hungry For Food & Results

Entrepreneurial

Forward Thinking & Flexible

Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)

Position Summary: The Account Manager is responsible for providing high quality service with a focus on corporate initiatives for assigned chain or independent account(s). They operate as a team conductor to manage, direct, and coordinate all sales plans and programs.

The Account Manager is responsible for strategic selling, bringing core product expertise and leveraging specialists when needed. They are responsible for creating partnering relationships of trust, integrity, customer satisfaction and loyalty and ensures customer compliance. They collaborate with their teams to achieve the objective of building out the store.

What you’lldo:

• Execute sales plans and goals designed to increase sales, profit margin and minimize expenses.
• Identify and manage new sales opportunities and servicing of existing accounts.

• Investigate, recommend, and educate new product offerings to capture new market trends.

• Forecast profit, volume growth and other related goals as determined.

• Establish buying influences, budgets and purchasing criteria for customer accounts.
• Prepare reports on customer account status.
• Delivers on corporate goals to deliver synergy and cross selling capabilities to  customers.

About you:

• Associates’ degree in business or related field preferred.
• Strong Excel skills
• Culinary and/or sales food retail experience

• Minimum of 2 years of sales experience

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Aptitude for financial reporting

The above job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Perks & Benefits:

• Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
• Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
• Weekly pay
• Life Insurance
• 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
• Employee discounts for travel and events
• 401k

The Chefs' Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.