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Aspire Bakeries is a North American
baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked
goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food
portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts,
muffins and pastries from beloved brands like
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La Brea
Bakery ®,
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Otis
Spunkmeyer ®, and
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Oakrun Farm
Bakery ®. With 13 bakeries in North America,
we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming
consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’
expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity,
Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver
on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and
Collaboration.
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Aspire Bakeries
is looking for a Sr. Manager, Customer Development
to lead one of our most important strategic
accounts. In this role, you’ll own the customer relationship
end-to-end—from sales strategy and account planning to execution,
merchandising, and promotions—ensuring we deliver on key revenue
targets and drive sustainable growth. Partnering closely with
Marketing, Brand Management, and Supply Chain, you’ll align
Aspire’s objectives with the customer’s corporate strategy, manage
product performance, and provide quick, effective solutions to
quality or food safety issues. This is a highly visible role where
you’ll influence business direction, lead presentations and
negotiations, and strengthen long-term partnerships while
identifying new opportunities for distribution and innovation.
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Responsibilities :
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Manage this key strategic account to
achieve volume goals through new placements, positioning,
merchandising and promotion.
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Serve as expert with this assigned
customer, understanding the customer’s corporate strategy, and how
to align the company with the customer’s
strategy.
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Collaborate with Marketing and Brand
Management team to develop and implement plan to meet and exceed
annual budget.
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Communicate with existing Aspire customer
development to make sure we are cohesive and aligned to Aspire’s
overall strategic direction.
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Manage and drive this strategic account from end to
end, and ensuring we meet our targets.
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Works with internal stakeholders to ensure we meet
the customers’ expectations on product.
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Able to respond quickly to any quality or food
safety opportunities and provide solutions and next
steps.
Lead & participate in presentations,
negotiations, sales meetings, and trade shows with key external
& internal stakeholders.
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Ensure customer satisfaction stays high, develop
lasting relationships with existing customers, and create new
relationships.
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Provide thought senior leadership in driving
distribution growth on current foods and new launches.
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Qualifications :
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Bachelor’s degree required.
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Four-year college degree from an
accredited institution.
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5-7 years sales or sales management
experience in a business-to-business sales
environment.
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Food experience strongly preferred
Strategic, resourceful, & creative individual who is a proven
hands-on sales leader that thrives in a team
environment.
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Flexible personality and able to
regularly transition between high-level, strategic work and
detailed, tactical work.Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint,
Word)Excellent communication and presentation
skills
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Salary Range : $110,000
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At Aspire Bakeries, we believe that when you
succeed, we all succeed. Join us and experience benefits that truly
work as hard as you do!
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Aspire Bakeries
is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability or veteran
status.
Customer Development Manager • Los Angeles, CA, United States