Yakima Fresh is a partnership between three successful Northwest Grower-Packer-Shippers with deep roots and a very proud heritage in the fruit industry.
The advantage of Yakima Fresh is a greatly diversified product mix of high volume Northwest Apples, Pears and Cherries. We operate four state-of-the-art packing and shipping warehouses in Washington and Oregon, each with comprehensive in-house quality control and food safety practices that are rigidly followed. Our pre-size facilities and our multiple packaging capabilities afford us the flexibility to meet all our retail and wholesale customers’ needs. We also understand the importance of controlling the fruit from tree-to-table.
Yakima Fresh is completely customer-driven, with an experienced team of professionals in Domestic and Export Sales, Transportation, Marketing, Merchandising and Ecommerce, all dedicated to providing our customers with individual attention, innovative solutions and World-Class Service!
We are currently seeking an experienced Export Account Manager for our Yakima Washington Sales Office. We’re offering this opportunity for the right candidate, a talented and experienced person, to grow with us. We provide competitive wages and excellent benefits.
- Aggressively maintain and build assigned customer accounts. Provide sales support to existing accounts, solicit new customers, and make sales presentations.
- Build strong long-term relationships that will serve as the foundation for long-term business growth.
- Perform daily pricing and sales negotiations with accounts to maximize sales, margins and inventory. Work with inventory and pack schedule programs.
- Develop time-sensitive promotions and account plans.
- Manage customer orders and logistics.
- Solve billing problems and coordinate with accounting to ensure prompt collection of account receivables. Ultimately responsible for the collection of all funds in a timely manner.
- Work with quality control, inventory control and transportation to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Provide backup, as needed, to other account managers in their absence.
- Bachelors Degree preferred.
- 3-5 years of successful, produce export sales experience.
- Willingness to relocate to Yakima, Washington.
- Strong computer skills with knowledge of M.S. Office.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, and act independently and make competent decisions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Occasional travel when necessary.
