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JOB FILLED - Account Manager

Job Description: 

Calavo Growers, Inc. is a global avocado-industry leader. The company also procures and markets diversified fresh produce items, ranging from tomatoes to tropical produce. An expanding provider of value-added fresh food, the company's Calavo Foods business segment manufactures and distributes guacamole, guacamole hummus and salsa under the respected Calavo brand name. Calavo's wholly owned subsidiary, Renaissance Food Group, LLC, creates, markets and distributes a portfolio of healthy, high-quality lifestyle products for consumers through fast-growing brands that include Garden Highway and Chef Essentials. Founded in 1924, Calavo serves food distributors, produce wholesalers, supermarket retailers and restaurant chains worldwide.

We are currently conducting a search for a seasoned tomato sales individual to sell to retail food stores, club stores, mass merchandisers, produce wholesalers, and food service accounts.

Requirements: 
  • Degree preferred or a combination of education and work experience, a minimum of ten+ years experience in a sales position, either inside or outside, in the agricultural/produce industry.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written, Spanish speaking skills a plus. 
  • Must possess excellent customer service skills, demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems involving several variables in standardized situations along with the ability to negotiate terms of sales orders.
  • May require travel on occasion (up to 10%). 
Responsibilities & Duties: 
We are looking for someone to make regularly scheduled telephone calls to active customers as well as prospective customers, to build, develop and maintain relationships with customers, investigate and resolve all customer issues such as delivery, quality, and quantity, negotiate prices and prepare sales contracts, coordinate date of delivery to customer, prepare reports of business transactions, and attend trade events as required.

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