Bachoco Group is a leading multi-business and multiprotein producer, and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 40,000 employees. We offer a wide portfolio of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, which include farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.
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Summary: The Director of Foodservice will be responsible for maintaining a base of customers in order to ensure sales of food service production and/or national production as well as other business sales.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Manages customer base and brokers.
- Conducts direct sales calls on medium to large volume accounts (outside a broker relationship).
- Negotiates pricing/contracts with key customers.
- Sets ad schedules with customers which includes both price and volumes.
- Addresses accounts receivable, aged inventory, customer complaints, delivery issues, and other concerns as required during everyday business.
- Coordinates Mix with plants, scheduler, and transportation.
- Travels to maintain customer base and develop new business opportunities and attend industry trade conference.
- Works with government agencies providing required qualifying documents and tasks.
- Performs problem solving and problem prevention.
- Thinks and acts independently with minimum supervision.
- Balances profit and loss decision making.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has 3 direct reports working in different locations.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university.
Seven to ten years of related experience and/or training.
Experience in the poultry business is required.
Proven track record in sales and business development within the foodservice sector.
Language Skills:
Excellent verbal communication skills for presentations and customer interactions.
Strong ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations.
Skilled in writing reports, business correspondence, and procedural documents.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Reasoning Ability:
Computer Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Bachoco USA reserves the right to conduct background screenings for positions deemed necessary and in accordance with applicable laws.
An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.
- Unsolicited Assistance: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.
