Senior Regional Sales Manager
Senior Regional Sales Manager
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Finding the right place to grow your career isnt (over) easy so were here to help by sharing a few reasons why the grass is greener at Vital Farms. We think youll appreciate our focus on Conscious Capitalism which drives business decisions that benefit all our stakeholders (leading to even better business results). You might be drawn to our innovative approach and refusal to settle for the way things have always been done. Or you could find it exciting to grow your skills while working for an industryleading brand. Whether youre into our values our brand or our eggcellent puns we hope youll join our Crew and help us change the world 108 square feet at a time!
At Vital Farms we are proud of our incredible stakeholders and the diversity they represent from all areas and communities in which we operate and serve. We view this as a source of strength for us and your job is to help us make it even better.
Your Role:
Reporting into the Senior Director of Sales Natural this team leader will grow our presence in the Natural Regional and Independent space across the total U.S. As one of the strongest brands in the natural space you will have the opportunity to help develop the strategy to further grow our presence across the country and drive strong relationship with a unique retailer base. A successful candidate will have strong sales experience building customer specific business plans and strategies with the natural landscape establishing multilevel relationships with key customers as well as the ability to train and lead a sales team. Collaboration with internal Vital Farms partners (Business Development and Category) and the crossfunctional HQ team (marketing shopper marketing supply chain finance) is critical to success in this role.
What Youll Do:
Sales Strategy and
- Lead the Natural Regional and Independent Sales Team of 3 crew members strategically located across the United States
- Develop channel and account specific strategies to drive sales growth and increase market share in alignment with Vital Farms overall sales distribution and KPI goals and objectives.
- Conduct regular business review calls to identify customer needs promote products optimize promotional plans and drive sales growth.
- Identify sales opportunities analyze market trends and stay up to date on competitor activities to optimize sales strategies.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with internal teams to ensure alignment of sales objective and plans.
Team Management and Customer Relationships
- Build and promote strong longlasting strategic customer relationships by partnering with their leadership teams and understanding their needs (Natural Grocers Coop. INFRA Fresh Thyme The Fresh Market)
- Manage relationships and agreements with brokers and distributors setting goals/targets and ensuring .
- Continuously expand the customer base and identify new business opportunities to increase market penetration.
- Work across the People Team and Sales Leadership to ensure the development of people in span of control through PD and QC processes throughout the year
Sales Reporting and Analysis
- Leverage customer and syndicated data to track consumption distribution pricing and sales to ensure the team is on track to hit company goals.
- Guide team to plan annual promotional plans and ensure trade spending is effective and driving distribution growth targets
- Evaluate sales promotional/ trade spending and effectively track ROI
- Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status.
- Conduct monthly and annual team reviews to drive accurate and timely forecasts for expected demand trade plan and promotional trade spend
What You Bring to the Table:
- Minimum of 7 years of successful CPG experience specific to natural sales national account management category management or related field. Dairy/Refrigerated experience preferred
- Bachelors degree required
- Demonstrated success and strong understanding of the natural retail landscape in the total U.S including knowledge of key players market dynamics and industry trends. Preference given to candidates with experience working with the following: Natural Grocers CoOp INFRA Fresh Thyme The Fresh Market Good Holdings Companies Whole Foods Sprouts KeHE and UNFI.
- Must be able to travel up to 35 for customer meetings team meetings onboarding trips trade shows and potential trainings
- Established relationships and demonstrated success working with key retailer accounts along with leading grocery broker and distributor relationships
- Proven track record of successfully developing annual plans to advance the company position at both the strategic and operational levels in the long and short term
- Proficient with leveraging syndicated data (IRI/Circana Nielsen and/or Spins) to build sales presentations and analyze business performance.
- Experience managing a broker network keeping them engaged and your business top of mind; as well as experience driving direct customer management
- Demonstrated successful engagement of Top to Top/JBP meetings with Senior Leadership and Executives at key retail partners to align joint plans
- Proficient in Trade Analytics and Software like Blacksmith (selling price margins etc.
- Has developed and led highly functioning sales individuals and/or team
- Youre no hero You know the power of teamwork and celebrate the work of others before your own.
- You give a sh*t You believe in acting like an owner and making Vital Farms a place to be proud of.
- You raise the standards You know growth can be hard but you strive to improve yourself and others each day.
- You can walk in someone elses boots You seek to understand others viewpoints and think that you get to better answers by sitting on the same side of the table.
- You dont walk on eggshells Youre not afraid to leave the bullsh*t behind and have honest conversations.
What We Bring to the Table:
- A fastpaced energetic remote environment with passionate people who are leading a movement to bring ethically produced food to the table.
- Competitive pay and benefits (Medical Dental Vision and Paid Parental Leave just to name a few).
- Generous retirement contributions: 401(k) 3 Contribution from Day 1.
- Annual bonus and equity grant (subject to business results and company approval)
- Free eggs and butter along with friends and family discounts.
- Fun team SWAG that will make you the talk of the town.
- Professional development opportunities and an amazing team dedicated to your growth.
At Vital Farms compensation decisions are dependent upon a variety of factors which may include but are not limited to skill levelexperience education training market demands and business needs.A reasonable estimate of the current starting annual base salary for this position is $140000 $160000. Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum end of the range would not be typical in order to allow for potential continued future salary growth.
Who We Are:
Vital Farms a Certified B Corporation offers a range of ethically produced foods nationwide. Started on a single farm in Austin Texas in 2007 Vital Farms became a national consumer brand that works with 350 family farms and is the leading U.S. brand of pastureraised eggs by retail dollar sales. Vital Farms products including shell eggs butter hardboiled eggs and liquid whole eggs are sold in over 24000 stores nationwide. Vital Farms ethics are exemplified by its focus on the humane treatment of farm animals and sustainable farming practices. In addition as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation Vital Farms prioritizes the longterm benefits of each of its stakeholders including farmers and suppliers customers and consumers communities and the environment crew members and stockholders. In short we exist to improve the lives of people animals and our planet through food.
In order to fulfill Vital Farms mission to bring ethically produced food to the table we seek to build teams that leverage diverse perspectives to create a welcoming and innovative environment that is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunities.
To that end we make employment decisions based on qualifications merit and business need. Vital Farms does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender and gender identity sex (including pregnancy childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) sexual orientation marital status age national origin citizenship status military or veteran status physical or mental disability genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
