Territory Development Manager Englewood Cliffs

Territory Development Manager – Unilever Food Solutions

Location:

Remote – NY

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €3bn+ food service division of Unilever, leading the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and having ambitious growth objectives. UFS markets a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 72 countries, creating value for its customers through culinary solutions and improving the food experience for everyone from distributors and operators to diners and consumers.

As a Territory Development Manager, you will drive sustainable business growth via Operators, Chains and Trade Partner engagement, using data and CRM tools to plan and execute sales calls and establish yourself as a valuable partner and grow market share in your territory.

• Convert business insights into activation solution selling.
• Utilize market trends to create concept solution selling.
• Gain insight and lead customers to the right solution.
• Network to key customer stakeholders to engage the right decision makers.
• Prepare visits with solution recommendation and use CRM Salesforce system to manage workflow and overall market funnel.
• Conduct F2F and virtual sampling, ideation, cooking demo using culinary knowledge to secure new opportunities or increase volume usage by new menu applications or existing dishes.
• Follow up on previous calls to ensure opportunities progress to the sale close.
• Secure and coordinate customer orders each month to ensure growth is on target.
• Meet with Distributors/Trade Partners to expand assortment, align on priorities and source leads for customer follow through.
• Build & nurture relationships with local Distributor Sales Rep’s (DSRs).
• Implement Contact Matrix for Key Trade customers with a Squad approach for more effective customer management.
• Engage trade customers to gain alignment for Secondary Sales Data (SSD).
• Implement promotions with customer related to key seasons and events.
• Ensure timely submission & settlement of claims.

• You are a Hunter with big Ambition, seeking effective ways to create New Demand (70% Hunting vs 30% Farming).
• You are a fast adopter of contemporary technology and already using AI in your day‑to‑day life, highly proficient in MS Office, Power BI and Excel.
• You are entrepreneurial and proactively create mutually beneficial solutions for UFS and your customers.
• You are curious and constantly learning from the market on how to stay ahead of food trends.
• You know how to sell premium brands with superiority selling stories and culinary solutions outside center of the plate.
• Bilingual is a plus (Spanish, Mandarin).

• CPG Food service Sales Experience (B2B Sales).
• Culinary/Chef Selling Experiences.
• Network of Existing Food service Operator Partners.
• Distributor Sales or Ingredient Sales or Broker Sales.
• Experience with CRM (Salesforce).
• Operator Experience.
• Market/Geographical knowledge.
• Food University Background (CIA, Food & Hospitality).
• Multi-National Corporate Company Experience – Understands Corporate Ways of Working.

Caring deeply. Positive tensions for bigger outcomes, fairness and transparency, performance and care. Staying three steps ahead of the market. Build future while delivering today, think big simplify, commit, lead shape disrupt market. Delivering with excellence. Pride in our execution, best in reality, developing breakthrough solutions. Focusing on what matters most. Fewer bigger things, fight for what matters most, challenging and debating right choices.

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