Culinary Specialist

** Responsibilities
* ** Develop and execute targeted culinary strategies to achieve individual and region annual business goals, delivering profitable sales growth and penetration across categories, specialty segments, and Sysco brand.
* Coordinate with Director of Business Resources, leveraging data to identify top opportunities for business reviews.
* Collaborate with sales team partners to clearly identify customer challenges, needs, or opportunities and deliver creative and productive solutions to help grow customer business and drive case growth.
* Track activities and results, collaborate on opportunities, and champion the team selling process through use of Salesforce (Sysco’s CRM tool).
* Leverage sampling in a solutions-oriented manner to close sales.
* Be informed of market conditions and trends, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales; share information with customers as part of value-added services provided.
* Facilitate internal/external food shows, catering and event planning activities.
* Coordinate kitchen logistics in support of internal/external culinary events.
* Lead, enable, and execute the Revolution Vendor program.
* Assist with employee training by working with sales to facilitate training sessions and complete demonstrations.
* Manage all operations of the test kitchen/culinary center including sanitation, product rotation, laundry service and the organization and upkeep of equipment, displays and the general appearance of the culinary facility.
* Manage test kitchen food and supply costs within budgetary parameters.
* Accompany and respond to regulatory agency kitchen/culinary center inspections.
* Enable and execute menu planning services.
* Supports a Customers First Mindset while carrying out daily duties.
* Complies with Sysco’s Food Safety Policy and procedures to ensure food safety, quality and legality requirements are met.
* Is willing to work safely with minimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their Supervisor.
* Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present.
* Perform other duties as assigned.
** Requirements (About you):
** Qualifications/Skills/Job Completion of post-secondary education, Minimum:
Red Seal Chef with preferred Diploma in Culinary Management or Restaurant Management.

Proficiency in culinary, restaurant operations, and food trends required (Internal Certification & External Certification may be required).Strong financial acumen and ability to properly plan and execute business plans.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with and influence a variety of key stakeholders.

Experience building trust with prospective customers and securing new business.

Proactive and self-directed, with the ability to structure a weekly schedule to be successful.

Demonstrated ability to deliver against deadlines and produce high-quality results (accuracy, thoroughness in the deliverables they are producing).Ability to learn the use of proprietary CRM tools for planning and forecasting sales growth.
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