Sr. Director, Sales

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We deliver the worlds best coffee. Farmers employees and customers are collaborators in our effort to create a memorable and enriching coffee experience. We are not afraid to ask questions try new things and admit that we are constantly learning. We strive for innovation improvement and positive change.

The Senior Director of Sales leads our wholesale sales team most of whom sell directly to independent coffee shops restaurants cafes and hotels along with a smaller distributor relationship and a small portfolio of specialty grocery accounts. We arent just looking for someone to fill the top sales job; we need a leader with a builder mentality who inspires and motivates the team to understand our goals execute our processes and achieve extraordinary results.

Most sales leadership roles ask you to manage an existing pipeline and keep the engine running. This isnt that job. Were looking for a Growth Builder - a strategic data-obsessed leader who thrives on potential and market dominance. We deliver extraordinary coffee to the world and we need a leader who brings that same unyielding commitment to excellence to our sales organization.

If youre driven by coaching talent leveraging data to outmaneuver the competition and scaling revenue systems lets talk.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Pipeline Management

• Drive Decisions: Utilize pipelines metrics and analytics to forecast performance manage the sales funnel and make sound objective strategic decisions.

• Execute Strategy & Growth: Formulate and execute scalable sales strategies to achieve revenue targets expand market share and optimize lead generation conversion and retention.

• Sales Budget Ownership: Own the sales budget and partner with finance to stay accountable to financial targets.

• Adaptability & Execution: Manage key performance indicators; pivot quickly when results are off to sort through real data versus excuses to resolve underlying obstacles.

2. Magnify Your Power

• Active Coaching: Serve as an active coach and mentor who teaches essential skills guides strategy and supports the team resisting the urge to jump in and close deals for them.

• Inspire & Motivate: You turn strategy into inspiration. You make sure every person on your team deeply understands the why behind our goals and the how of our processes. They execute flawlessly with our customers to show every detail matters.

• Coach & Scale: Hire and lead your top-tier sales talent aligned with our values. Nurture high-potential individuals and facilitate career progression.

3. Market Expansion & Partnerships

• Key Account Management: Build and maintain strong strategic relationships with major key accounts distributors and retail partners.

• Go-to-Market Execution: Develop and implement comprehensive go-to-market strategies for new initiatives including expanded foodservice distribution and our new product lines including Ready-to-Drink.

• Brand & Product Alignment: Champion brand standards across all sales touchpoints and maintain a tight feedback loop between the sales team marketing and product innovation.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of professional sales leadership experience with a proven track record building and leading a direct relationship-based sales team.

• Coffee specialty food beverage or hospitality industry background strongly preferred.

• Experience working in ERP systems using data to inform decisions.

• Bachelors Degree required or equivalent work experience.

• Demonstrated experience as a coach-first leader who prioritizes team enablement cross-functional collaboration and active mentoring over individual selling.

• An entrepreneurial self-starter mentality with high adaptability creative problem-solving skills and a passion for revenue and growth.

• Exceptional verbal written and executive-level communication skills.

• Ability to travel sometimes on weekends or evenings.

• Drivers license is required

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to see talk and hear

• Frequently required to stand walk sit use hands to handle or feel reach with hands and arms and stoop kneel or crouch

• Office and retail environments

• Noise level is generally moderate

• Fine hand manipulation (keyboard use)

• May require more than 40 hours per week to fulfill essential duties

Benefits

• Medical dental and vision insurance

• Company-paid long & short-term disability and life insurance

• Paid vacation and sick time

• 401(k) eligible after 90 days of employment and a company match after one year

• 8 Paid holidays per year

• Commuter benefits

• Free bag of coffee each week with a discount on other items

• Employee Assistance Program
  

Compensation

The pay rate for this position is $00 as base pay. This role carries an additional incentive eligibility of $ between commissions and the annual bonus plan.

Tocounterpayinequalityandupholdinternalparityweare publicizing salary information for this role. This is also required by multiple state laws in which we operate. From a candidates perspective our salary range takes into account a number of factors including skill sets experience education and the training needed for the role. From a company perspective it includes organizational needs budgets and internal equity considerations. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of our range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. We are honest and open about our pay and hope that you will be too to avoid miscommunication or frustration at the offer stage.

If you reside outside of the Chicago/LA/NYC areas please include a cover letter regarding your plans to relocate. Only candidates in these cities will be considered otherwise. Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Intelligentsia Coffee Inc is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals.

We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving guests throughout our communities. People of color women LGBTQIA veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances.

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