Job Description
KEY ACCOUNT and LOCAL SALES
Copper River Seafoods, Inc.
Department: Sales
Report to: Vice President of Sales
Position Overview: Grow and manage Local and Domestic sales for Copper River Seafoods
Responsibilities:
- Wholesale fresh and frozen seafood sales duties to new and existing customers
- Identify potential customers and channels of business and pursue appropriate opportunities to sell new products
- Manage and grow assigned and created book of business
- Responsible for wholesale local Alaska sales transactions.
- Provide ongoing support to Online sales development
- Partner with production and logistics teams to ensure efficient and timely and profitable delivery of products
- Communicate with customers regarding service or delivery issues
- Develop and maintain plans for continued local growth and expansion to include CRS full line of seafood offerings
- Maintain active knowledge of seafood product offerings and seek opportunities to place additional products
- Ongoing Alaska marketplace analysis and reporting on competitor pricing and general market conditions
- Actively manage customers to further the business relationship and identify opportunities for sales
- Develop business relationships with customers to the highest level possible
- Work collaboratively with Finance department to review AR weekly and ensure customers comply with payment terms
- Other duties as assigned, such as other domestic key accounts etc.
Other Skills/Abilities/Responsibilities:
- Seafood industry expertise including harvest timing, methods, species, and production
- Category Management as assigned
- Commodity sales as assigned
- Excellent customer service, problem solving, and communication skills
- Strong written, verbal, and organizational skills for writing and reporting
- Ability to prioritize projects and programs
- Very efficient with customer prospecting and follow-ups
- Ability to interact positively and form relationships with professionals inside and outside the company
- Ability to work in a fast pace often changing environment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- 5-10 years of sales experience and/or seafood industry experience
- Documented business and customer service experience
- Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint proficiency
Position Base: (City) Anchorage, Alaska
Compensation DOE Salary plus incentive
How to Apply:
Mail/Hand-Deliver:
Copper River Seafoods
1118 East 5th Avenue
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Attention: Human Resources
Email: hr@crsalaska.com