SALES ASSISTANT-TAMPA

Description:

About Brothers International Food, LLC:

Brothers International Holdings, LLC. is a privately-owned food and beverage company based in New York with offices in China and Florida. The company’s Ingredients division supplies top-quality fruit and fruit juice concentrates to a number of Fortune 100 food companies. The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) division includes Brothers-All-Natural, the #1 Freeze-Dried Snack Brand, and also produces private label freeze-dried fruit snacks for some of the leading retailers in the US.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Assist VP of Ingredient Division with day-to-day activities related to sales.
• Prepare, send, and follow up on offers to customers.
• Engage customers through calls, emails and visits. Keep track of contracts and shipments to customers.
• Work with ERP system to enter and organize sales data.
• Available for travel to visit customers and attend trade shows.
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus

Note:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

• AA/BA in Business Administration preferred or equivalent experience.
• One year experience with CPG is preferable.
• Excellent computer skills including, all MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook,
• PowerPoint) required.
• Must be a self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a talent for customer service.
• Must have strong customer support orientation (for internal/external customers), demonstrated
• professional demeanor, and the ability to maintain confidential information.
• Must have strong skills in organization and planning, attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment and problem solving.
• Excellent ability to multi-task and prioritize in a busy, fast-growth environment
• Exhibit extraordinary flexibility and willingness to work closely with the sales management team