Wholesale Sales - National Sales Manager

Purpose The National Sales Manager role is accountable for assisting the Moran Foods Wholesale team to expand the sales of the Moran Foods portfolio of brands to both domestic and international customers.

The National Sales Manager executes on sales and margin strategies, customer relationships, new business development and logistics solutions to hit financial goals provided by executive management.

The role is responsible for supporting a multi-million-dollar P&L and will heavily focus on acquiring new customers.

Responsibilities Focuses heavily on prospecting and acquiring new non-Save a Lot retail and wholesale customers, both domestically and international.

Executes strategies to expand the sale of Moran Foods brands outside the current portfolio of Save a Lot Licensed stores.

Visits Wholesale Customers as well as markets, stores, and distribution centers as necessary to observe results of product lines and share knowledge of competitive products, performance, and business trends.

Collaborates with the Marketing department to develop resources needed to support the sale of Moran Foods brands with specific focus on America’s Choice as an umbrella brand for the department.

Manages the execution, fulfilment, pricing, and assortment for orders.

Develops and executes specific strategies for fast, efficient product movement from the vendor to the customer.

Implements these strategies in the context of the company’s overall plan to optimize the integrated supply chain, enabling business improvement in the areas of availability, cost, inventory, turns, COGS, quality, and speed to market.

Interfaces with multiple internal and external departments including Distribution, Logistics, Inventory, Retail Partners, Retail Ops and Finance to align on assumptions and implications for supply chain and distribution optimization.

Supports appropriate KPIs and broader analytics within our systems via dashboards and metrics to measure performance against commitments and actively use results to redirect resources as required.

Establishes and maintains a pipeline of prospective new customers through competitive intelligence, relationship building, customer meetings, trade events and social media.

Supports an environment which clearly translates the business strategy and objective into a culture of agility, continuous improvement, delivery of results and change management.