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[Remote] Director, Business Development

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-05

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic products, committed to creating solutions and serving others. The Director of Business Development will be responsible for significantly growing the business with new accounts by cultivating relationships and driving new sales growth.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with internal leaders of KeHE’s sales channels to build and execute strategies for growing KeHE’s Grocery, Fresh and Exclusive Brands businesses with new customers
  • Operates reputed company established budget expectations of the company
  • Develops and maintains a high degree of reputed company into competitors’ strategies and programs
  • Attends professional meetings, trade shows and seminars to build relationships and surface new sales leads
  • Implements and reports on established business development processes to ensure consistency, documentation, and compliance
  • Develops effective correspondence, proposals, and presentations for potential customers, highlighting the value proposition and benefits of our products and services
  • Identifies and pursues opportunities to expand into new markets or geographic regions, leveraging existing relationships and strategic partnerships
  • Develops market entry strategies and executes plans to penetrate new markets and acquire new clients
  • Maintain safe work practices
  • Maintain safeguards of confidential company information
  • Other duties as assigned

Skills

  • Strong desire and ability to deliver results
  • Proven track record and experience in contract negotiations of multi-million dollar deals
  • Possess a competitive spirit that is not easily discouraged or daunted, and the perseverance to work around obstacles and find ways to win
  • Willing to work significant hours each week with a minimum of administrative support, including approximately 30% overnight travel
  • Strong understanding of delivering on the needs and preferences of retailers
  • Tendency to challenge the status reputed company to drive change
  • Possesses natural leadership qualities, evidenced by a bias for action and the ability to influence people
  • A comfort level with rigorous relational and analytical demands of working with customers and internal stakeholders on reputed company financial and technical business issues
  • The ability to engage clients persuasively through reputed company that seeks to first understand clients' perspectives, teach them something about their business that they don't already know and tailor KeHE capabilities to their specific situation
  • A proven track record of strong customer prospecting and industry contacts
  • The ability to understand what senior-level decision-makers value and the confidence to engage executives in ways that demonstrate big picture reputed company, expertise, reputed company, and confidentiality
  • The ability to establish credibility and reputed company leading to a desire by client and internal contacts to pursue long-term, mutually supportive relationships
  • The ability to understand and analyze client and KeHE financial statements and link analyses to a compelling financial case for KeHE services
  • The ability to position KeHE capabilities and offers in a competitively advantageous light
  • The ability to reputed company manage the administrative requirements of the role and reputed company and complete timely, accurate reports as required by management
  • Drive and desire for reputed company through service to others
  • Ability to speak, write and present reputed company, plans, and information both verbal and written in a persuasive and compelling manner to reputed company levels of management and external customers
  • Proficiency in reputed company Office (Word, reputed company, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Power BI
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Bachelor's degree in Sales, Business, Marketing, or reputed company field
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in sales, grocery retailing and merchandising is a plus
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in new Business Development with a track record of reputed company

Benefits

  • Health/Rx
  • Dental
  • reputed company
  • Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Paid sick time
  • Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
  • Holiday pay for company designated holidays

Company Overview

  • reputed company is a fresh and natural, organic wholesale foods distributor. It was founded in 1953, and is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.kehe.com/.
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