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Hungry for a challenge? The opportunity of a lifetime awaits. Hormel Foods, the largest publicly-traded food corporation in the business, has been rated one of the "100 Best Companies to Sell For."
Not only do we offer a competitive product edge—often the number one or number two brand in the market—but we also provide solid marketing support and budgets to help you increase your sales. Not to mention all the training and mentoring you'll need to help you get started.
By doing well and aggressively achieving your sales goals, you can advance to positions of greater scope and responsibility. Many of our highly successful salespeople have gone on to manage large sales territories throughout the country or marketing positions at the corporate level.
Hormel Foods Corporation markets its products—nationally and internationally—through two distinct sales force divisions.
- Foodservice
- Consumer Products
The foodservice industry includes restaurants, fast-food chains, hotels, hospitals, airline caterers, schools and more. As a Hormel Foods Foodservice Sales Representative, your customer accounts may range from colleges to contemporary restaurants like Famous Dave’s to major hotel chains like Marriott. That kind of diversity represents a real challenge and further broadens your experience.
Some foodservice accounts will be interested in ethnic food products such as House Of Tsang® sauces and marinades, while others will want to know more about Hormel® pepperoni—the number one pepperoni pizza topping in America. Your product lineup will be diverse, from standards like Cure 81® ham and Special Recipe® pork sausage to specially adapted foodservice items like Layout Pack® bacon and Sandwich Maker® sausage.
Your challenge and goal is to help your customers improve their operations by providing better quality, better tasting, distinctive products, helping them save on preparation costs through use of value-added products (versus lower-cost but labor-intensive items), and providing convenient portion sizes. The sharper your entrepreneurial skills, the more you'll enjoy the taste of success. Once your training is finished, you'll be promoted to Territory Manager, with full responsibility for a distributor and client group, for instance, a restaurant chain.
If that kind of challenge excites you, a position with our Foodservice Division may be just what you're looking for.
“In my five years with Hormel Foods, I’ve been promoted three times. If you’re willing to show a strong work ethic, to go above and beyond the call of duty to grow your business, you can work your way quickly up the corporate ladder.”
- Josh Bell, Senior Customer Executive, Illinois
In Consumer Products Sales, you’ll practice the art of selling with some of the most renowned grocery products in America, from hot ethnic flavors such as Chi-Chi’s® salsa, House Of Tsang® sauces and marinades and Marrakesh Express® couscous to traditional staples such as the SPAM® family of products, Cure 81® ham and Wranglers® franks. Right from the start, the Hormel Foods name will give you an “in” with your customer.
As a Sales Representative with Hormel Foods Consumer Products Sales, you’ll have all the tools you need to succeed. Our brands not only offer a competitive edge, they’re also backed by solid marketing and advertising support. Always Tender® pork, Hormel® chili, Black Label® bacon, Little Sizzlers® pork sausage, Dinty Moore® stew, Hormel® pepperoni and deli-style products like Di Lusso® Genoa salami are sought after by consumers everywhere.
Plus, we provide the right combination of challenge and support until you’re ready to take on that job as Territory Manager. Because at Hormel Foods, we believe in promoting from within. This means each success you carve out for yourself in the Consumer Products Sales group will be noticed.
By aggressively pursuing your sales goals through creative strategies and fresh thinking, you’ll find plenty of opportunities for advancement. And if this means relocating, what better chance to experience exciting new places? The sky’s the limit. It’s all up to you.
Learn more about Sales Opportunities at Hormel Foods.