- Company Name
- Pressed Juicery
- Job Title
- Director of Sales - Limited Service Restaurants
- Job Description
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Job Title: Director of Sales – Limited Service Restaurants
Role Summary
Lead the growth of Pressed’s Limited Service Restaurant (LSR) segment, driving acquisition of national and regional fast‑casual, coffee‑café, and quick‑service chains. Own quota attainment, design pilots, scale rollouts, and develop a repeatable playbook for LSR expansion.
Expectations
- Meet or exceed multimillion‑dollar annual revenue targets across Fast Casual, Coffee, and QSR chains.
- Maintain a 3× pipeline coverage with clear stage definitions (prospecting → discovery → pilot → expansion → rollout).
- Translate market insights into win‑winning strategies, protect deal economics, and partner with finance to align pricing and margins.
- Build and nurture senior‑level relationships, ensuring smooth transition from chain negotiation to franchise adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the LSR growth plan and quota, deliver scalable revenue.
- Prospect, pitch, and close large national & regional chains.
- Design and execute 8–12‑week pilots with KPI, waste, planogram, sampling, and post‑mortem rigor.
- Identify operational risks, provide executable mitigation plans.
- Scale successful pilots to multi‑region rollout, coordinating training, merchandising, POS, launch kits, compliance.
- Activate and manage distribution lanes with direct store distribution partners.
- Resolve issues decisively, coordinate cross‑functional teams (logistics, merchandising, finance).
Required Skills
- Proven senior sales leadership in fast‑moving CPG or LSR environment.
- Strong pipeline management, prospecting, negotiation, closing.
- Relationship building with Directors/VPs, category managers, procurement, culinary, and franchise owners.
- Data‑driven decision making, financial acumen, and margin protection.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder‑management.
- Ability to design playbooks, scale pilots, and execute operational plans.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
- Minimum 8–10 years of progressive sales experience in CPG/LSR space with documented quota attainment.
- Leadership experience managing cross‑functional initiatives.