General Parts Group is seeking an Experienced Business Development Representative with a strong preference for candidates with food service industry experience. The role involves prospecting, building a pipeline, and engaging with food service buyers while utilizing a disciplined CRM process.
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
- Food Service Industry Experience Strongly Preferred
- Sold into food service or Worked in that world and moved into sales
- Know how to generate meetings — not just activity
- Stay consistent when prospects go quiet
- Can handle rejection without losing momentum
- Take coaching and apply it quickly
- 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
- Understand how food service buyers think
- Personalize outreach instead of relying on scripts
- Treat CRM as a performance tool — not admin work
- Take ownership of your pipeline and results
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.