Territory Account Executive, Retail - Oak Brook, Il

Toast Toast · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales : Retail Sales AEs

Toast is seeking a Territory Account Executive for their new Retail platform, focusing on convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops. This role involves prospecting, building relationships, and closing new accounts using a consultative sales approach. The ideal candidate will have a founder's mindset, strong sales expertise, and an entrepreneurial spirit to grow Toast's presence in this new vertical. The role requires managing the full sales cycle, conducting demos, and leveraging Salesforce. While the company uses AI tools internally and in its hiring process, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use a consultative approach to prospect, build relationships, and sign up convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops
  2. Generate lists of prospective convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops and manage the entire sales cycle from initial call to close
  3. Conduct demos and develop a solution that best meets the prospect’s needs
  4. Partner with teams across the business to ensure that expectations set during the sales process are met in delivery
  5. Leverage Salesforce (our CRM) to manage all sales activities

Skills

Required

  • Sales expertise
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Consultative sales approach
  • Prospecting
  • Relationship building
  • Sales cycle management
  • Demos
  • Solution development
  • Salesforce (CRM)
  • Communication skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Ability to sell and negotiate at all decision-making levels
  • Proven track record of success in meeting and exceeding goals
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and team environment
  • Self-motivated
  • Creative
  • Flexible
  • Willing to navigate ambiguity
  • Willingness to travel 25% or more

Nice to have

  • Retail operations experience

What the JD emphasized

  • founder's mindset
  • founder's mindset
  • entrepreneurial spirit
  • entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset
  • entrepreneurial and team environment
  • Self-motivated, creative, flexible, and willing to navigate ambiguity