Director of Sales - Club/Mass/Value

Impossible Foods

800

United States, United States

Posted on: 2025-02-14

Category: food

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Director

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Hi. We're Impossible Foods, and we make meat, dairy and fish from plants. Our mission is to make the global food system truly sustainable by eliminating the need to make food from animals. Why? Animal agriculture uses a tremendous amount of the world's natural resources. In 2016, we launched our first product, the Impossible™ Burger. It's delicious, nutritious, and made using but a small fraction of the land, water and energy required to make meat from a cow.

Impossible Foods was founded to transform the global food system and reduce the impact of climate change by making the world’s most delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat, fish, and dairy — from plants. We’re building a rockstar team of brilliant, collaborative, mission-driven individuals who take pride in using their diverse skills to contribute to saving our planet.

Want to join the movement? You can help us solve the most urgent, important challenge facing the world today (and have fun doing it).

Job Summary:

The Director of Sales Club/Mass, will lead a team charged with growing Impossible’s distribution and revenue across Walmart, Club & Value Channels in North America. This leader will oversee the growth and expansion of Impossible’s footprint in these vital customers for the organization. This individual needs to manage expertly across depth and breadth of these customers, from managing current multi department relationships, ensuring customer and channel cohesion with the rest of Impossible’s business, and identifying and executing against substantial opportunities at current and white space customers.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of CPG sales, strong communication and leadership skills and a proven track record of delivering distribution and revenue growth across a diverse retail customer base.

Impossible Foods Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other trait protected by law.

Impossible Foods offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your application for employment or interview process, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected] or call 855-877-6365. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email inbox will not be accepted.

If the ability to work remotely is indicated, this role can be performed from any US state except for Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Essential Job Functions:

Lead, develop and motivate team of account managers and specialists, fostering a positive, collaborative growth mindset culture

Consistently deliver monthly, quarterly and annual volume and net revenue targets for the channel's customers.

Build and develop strong relationships with existing and new retail customers, negotiating agreements that facilitate sustained Impossible growth

Leverage customer, industry and category data to identify opportunities and develop customized sales strategies

Develop KPIs for team members, creating clarity of success measures and tracking

Identify new distribution channels, expanding product offerings into new markets

Communicate clearly, frequently and broadly with all cross-functional stakeholder and the management team, including senior executives

Operate with a sense of urgency and accountability

Be a strong cross-functional partner to marketing, communications, finance, accounting, corporate strategy, R&D and supply chain.

Challenge the status quo of “how things work” in the food industry to knock down barriers to grow the business faster than any food brand ever has

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) from a four-year college or university

12 - 15 years CPG with experience in retail sales

Experience in sales support functions (trade marketing, sales planning, category management) preferred

Experienced in Mass and Club channels

Proven success of building and leading sales teams, developing and motivating talent

Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills

Ability to leverage data to develop insights-driven solutions

Flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a dynamic and fast paced retail and company environment

Ability to build strong relationships with customers, third party vendors and cross functional partners

Preferred Qualifications:

Preference for experience in selling or working with mid-cycle CPG brands in the perishable temperature space

Genuine interest and passion for Impossible Food’s mission

Demonstrated ability of scaling a national brand across different retail channels and customer types

Proven success navigating in an ever changing and often chaotic (and exciting) high growth environment

Understand hierarchy of customer decision making and how to influence at each level

Experience managing regional and/or specialty brokers

Well organized, resourceful, positive attitude and driven to excel

Ability to prioritize, delegate and communicate efficiently and effectively

Knowledge of trade management systems

Strong analytical skills and can think strategically

Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

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