General Parts Group is looking for an Experienced Business Development Representative with a strong preference for candidates with food service industry experience. The role focuses on generating meetings through personalized outreach and understanding the unique challenges faced by food service buyers.
Responsibilities
- Prospect into restaurants, operators, and distributors
- Build pipeline through cold calls, email, and targeted outreach
- Speak to real problems — downtime, cost, reliability
- Book qualified meetings and create clean handoffs
- Run a disciplined, organized CRM process
Skills
- Experience as a Business Development Representative
- Food Service Industry Experience
- Ability to generate meetings
- Consistency when prospects go quiet
- Ability to handle rejection without losing momentum
- Ability to take coaching and apply it quickly
- Ability to prospect into restaurants, operators, and distributors
- Ability to build pipeline through cold calls, email, and targeted outreach
- Ability to speak to real problems — downtime, cost, reliability
- Ability to book qualified meetings and create clean handoffs
- Ability to run a disciplined, organized CRM process
- Understanding of how food service buyers think
- Ability to personalize outreach instead of relying on scripts
- Ability to treat CRM as a performance tool
- Ownership of pipeline and results
- Sold into food service
- Worked in food service and moved into sales
Company Overview
Founded in 1939, General Parts Group distributes parts and provides service for over 60,000 customers and 400 manufacturers of commercial foodservice equipment. It was founded in 1939, and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://generalparts.com.