Are you a culinary professional ready to leverage your industry expertise in a customer-facing business development sales role? ACP, Inc. a division of Welbilt, an Ali Group Company, is seeking a motivated Sales Leader to drive growth across the South-Central US, Mexico, and LATAM markets. Since 1969, ACP, Inc. has been a leader in manufacturing and designing commercial high-speed and microwave ovens used in some of your favorite restaurants. This remote-based role is ideally located in the Dallas/Forth Worth area and requires approximately 75% domestic and international travel. We're particularly interested in candidates with strong culinary, foodservice operations, food science, or Certified Executive Chef (CEC) backgrounds. While previous sales experience is beneficial, we highly value a culinary background, industry expertise, relationship-building skills, and a passion for helping customers succeed. What You’ll Do Partner with key accounts, dealers, distributors, manufacturer’s representatives, consultants and end users to achieve sales, revenue and profitability objectives. Identify, develop and secure new business opportunities while expanding existing customer relationships. Understand customer needs and recommend solutions that drive value and business growth. Utilize market intelligence and customer insights to provide input that supports product development, global sales strategies and market positioning initiatives. Represent ACP at industry trade shows, customer events, product demonstrations, food application development and training and education activities. Maintain accurate sales forecasts and provide account performance reporting, opportunities and market developments, as well as effective management of territory planning, travel and customer activities. What We’re Looking For : Culinary, foodservice or food science training, certification and/or experience strongly preferred. CEC designation a plus. Sales and business development experience preferable, but willing to train and mentor the successful candidate who possesses a combination of culinary training or experience and demonstrates the aptitude, drive and interpersonal skills necessary to build customer relationships and grow business. Spanish-language proficiency is strongly preferred but not required. Project management skills are vital. Strong communication and presentation skills. Food equipment industry experience helpful. Experience in international sales and global markets helpful. Personal computer skills using MS Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint are necessary. ACP, Inc. offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work for an established company with a talented workforce that is committed to delivering innovative products to the food service industry.