Advanced Natural Group is a national Food Service brokerage representing the bet in class natural food and beverage brands.
Our specialty is placing brands where consumers live their lives. We provide a fresh approach to the outdated and broken broker model.
Our team provides a brand specific approach to building sales in the food service channel. With a growing demand for natural products ANG works with the best: buyers, operators, and distributors in the business to forge meaningful relationships and put impactful wins on the board.
We are seeking a Regional Manager East to join our team.
The Regional Manager East position reports to Managing Partner at ANG. This position is responsible for the overall growth in the OCS, Vending, and C&U channels of sales. Key responsibilities are to establish new accounts in the region and gain new placements of ANG contracted brands in new and existing accounts assigned to Regional Manager.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Develop and grow sales with key distributor partners in assigned sales channels
- Manage and organize all sales within OCS, Micro market vending & college and university accounts
- Acquire new accounts and grow the ANG portfolio within those accounts
- Manage existing account base and grow ANG portfolio business within existing accounts
- Maintain excellent customer service with customers and brands
- Assist wider ANG team with events and other tasks as needed
- Attend relevant trade shows and represent the ANG portfolio and the brands it represents
Requirements:
- This is a full time, 40 hours per week position
- Travel – 50% of time
- Attend trade shows and company events as needed
- Ability to take the lead in company event organization and projects
- Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint, Word efficiency. Able to work with Google Docs suite and general knowledge of other programs related to job functions
Knowledge and Skills:
- Adaptable: Multi-task efficiently and effectively prioritize business needs.
- Personable: Comfortable talking to customers to establish rapport, build a network, and listen to understand customer needs. Comfortable working with founders, CEOs and multiple team members
- Team player: Share best practices and learn from team members.
- Innovative: Use creativity to make the company work more efficiently
- Strong organizational, planning, networking and relationship building skills; collaborative, cross-functional team skills, resourcefulness, ability to creatively solve problems, excellent communication skills
- Must be a self-starter, be punctual and reliable, and the ability to excel in an entrepreneurial environment
Education and Experience:
- 3-5 years of grab and go CPG experience required
- College degree preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally to buildretailer relationships, and in writing to accomplish follow-up.
- Knowledge of, Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel, word, and Power Point.
Compensation:
- DOE (depends on experience)
- Great health benefits, dental vision. 401k + match and PTO
Our company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law.
This policy applies with regard to all aspects of one’s employment, including hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation, eligibility for benefits and termination.