Director of Sales (Food Sales)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States; travel required 35%

Salary: $151,300–$211,800 annually

Company

hirify.global is a large baking company with more than 20,000 associates working across bakeries, sales centers, offices, and sales routes.

What you will do

• Lead a market-area sales team responsible for sales, profit, freshness, and market-share growth.
• Coach, train, develop, and motivate frontline business partners and sales leaders.
• Drive direct-store-delivery excellence, merchandising standards, perfect-store practices, and customer relationships.
• Approve new routes, route splits, and route restructures while optimizing the operational network.
• Coordinate with distribution, bakery operations, HR, labor, finance, marketing, and sales-planning teams.
• Support safety, food-safety, audit, labor-cost, and continuous-improvement objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or Marketing; an MBA is preferred.
• 10–12 years of management experience in food sales or a comparable industry.
• Experience leading salaried associates and managing teams.
• Strong sales leadership, communication, presentation, negotiation, organizational, analytical, and planning skills.
• Computer proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Ability to work in Salt Lake City, Utah, and travel 35%.

Nice to have

• Experience working in or managing an Account Executive role.
• Labor-relations experience with union organizations.
• MBA.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Safe and inclusive work environment with opportunities for associate development.