District Sales Manager
- Location
- Newark, DE · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Listed
- 15 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Four or more years of sales or business experience
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data, including profitability models
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours
- Valid, unrestricted state driver's license and safe driving record
Also useful
- Demonstrated ability to create results through relationships
- Thought leadership
- Servant leadership framework
About the role
Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our table for you...
Overview
For over 125 years, Gordon Food Service has delivered the excellence, expertise, and quality products our customers need to design successful food operations and experiences. We've grown to be the largest family-operated broadline food distribution company in North America by being passionately committed to the people we serve.
At Gordon Food Service, our customers come first. As a District Sales Manager, you will play a key role in presenting our customers with a consultative, relationship-focused approach -- one that will make their food service businesses thrive.
This position will reside in: Newark, DE
Position Benefits
- A generous 401(k) matching program that is above industry standards
- Financial rewards for performance
- Low-cost benefit options for you and your family's health and future
Leadership at Gordon Food Service
- At Gordon Food Service, our leaders create win/win relationships - with customers, employees, and vendors.
- We look forward to presenting a District Sales Manager opportunity to someone who has a demonstrated ability to create results through relationships.
- This role requires significant thought leadership and people leadership.
About the role
We invite you to lead a team of high-performing, results-driven outside sales representatives, where our customers' potential is personal.
Leading People
- Hire, develop, and retain staff, creating robust succession plans and developing the next generation of leaders
- Identify goals and objectives, provide regular and candid feedback through evaluations or coaching sessions
Developing Business Plans
- Develop sales targets for individual sales representatives
- Understand areas of customer focus, including Sales Building, Staffing, Profitability, and Compliance
Engage with the Industry
- Visit key existing and future customers
As a District Sales Manager, you'll learn
- How to lead following the Servant Leadership model/framework
- How to Participate in food shows, regional customer events, customer segment shows, and customer trips to headquarters to maintain visibility with customers, segments, or associations
Position Requirements
- Four or more years of previous sales or business experience
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data, including profitability models
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours
- Maintaining a valid, unrestricted state driver's license and a safe driving record
- If applicable, must participate in the company vehicle reimbursement program and maintain required insurance levels
- Gordon Food Service encourages veterans and active military members to apply
- BE PART OF AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US!
Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process.
All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free.
Our Culture
Gordon Food Service has a people-focused culture forged through camaraderie, teamwork, and inclusion. Our business model is one of servant leadership. We best serve the customer by serving with great care those who serve our customers. We feel the culture when we work together and when we serve together. As a team, we tackle our challenges, celebrate our successes, and have fun on the journey. We are what we say we are, and we'd love for you to be a part of it.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to and use the words "Accommodation Request" in your subject line.
Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment drug tests.
From Gfs's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 26, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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