$110,000–$120,000 Per Year
Title: Regional Sales Manager (Foods)
Location: Remote, Midwest regional travel
Hire Type: Direct-hire, Onsite
Shift: Early day shift
Target Salary: $110,000 - $120,000/year, plus commission & bonus
Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical/Dental/Vision Plans, 401(k), Travel expenses paid
Must have Skill Set: Business-to-business travel sales experience in the food industry
Overview:
Seeking a Regional Sales Manager to drive new business growth across the Midwest. This role focuses heavily on in-market selling, prospecting, and opening new accounts, with a small existing book of business. The position is remote with significant regional travel and is ideal for a food sales professional who thrives on face-to-face selling and representing a strong, product-driven brand.
Job Duties:
- Drive new customer acquisition across a large Midwest territory through face-to-face selling
- Maintain and grow a small portfolio of existing accounts
- Spend significant time in-market meeting distributors, customers, and prospects
- Build and execute a regional sales strategy aligned with company growth goals
- Represent the brand with deep product knowledge and enthusiasm for the food industry
- Partner with internal teams to support customer needs and close opportunities
- Track activity, pipeline, and performance against targets
- Serve as a visible, accountable sales leader in a historically high-performing region
Qualifications:
- Strong background in food sales required
- 5–6+ years of sales management or senior-level sales experience
- Proven success managing and growing a large regional territory
- Dairy or cheese industry experience highly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to win new business through in-person selling
- Comfortable with autonomy, accountability, and high visibility
- Strong communication, organization, and relationship-building skills
Travel Requirements:
- Approximately 40 weeks per year
- Typically Monday–Thursday
- Must live within reasonable access to a major airport
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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Sterling Engineering, Inc.
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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