About the Role
Title: Sales Director
Location: San Francisco United States
Job Description:
Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we’ve helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you’ll join us!
About the Role
As a Sales Director at Afresh, you will focus on strategic, enterprise sales with large grocers throughout the US. You’ll identify and articulate how Afresh can unlock significant value for their business. As a part of the Sales team at a rapidly growing startup, you’ll have the opportunity to help define our processes, influence strategic decisions, and help develop the sales culture.
- Execute all aspects of the sales cycle while building and managing relationships with key, executive-level decision-makers at various grocers
- Manage and run complex sales cycles while guiding customers through every aspect of the sales process from initial contact to close
- Prospect for new clients, build and deliver product presentations, and develop proposals
- Develop a deep understanding of the Afresh product, competitive landscape, the grocery market, and our customers’ needs and pain points
- Partner closely with teams such as Product, Engineering, Implementation, and Customer Success to deliver a world-class customer experience
Skills and Experience
The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
- 5+ years of direct SaaS sales experience
- Experience selling complex meaningful technological or SaaS-based systems in enterprise-level partnerships to VP / C-suite stakeholders
- Solid track record of negotiating, structuring and executing complex agreements with C-suite Executives
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams through deal processes
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and data-driven with a demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales pipeline and results
- A true self-starter who works well in ambiguity and effectively adopts change