Territory Account Executive, Retail - Sarasota, Fl

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

Toast is expanding its POS platform into new food and beverage concepts like convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops with its Toast Retail platform. This role involves prospecting, building relationships, and closing new accounts using a consultative approach. The Account Executive will manage the sales cycle, conduct demos, and develop customized solutions for prospects, leveraging Salesforce for CRM management and understanding the competitive landscape. The role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, strong sales and negotiation skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. While Toast uses AI tools internally and in its hiring process, this specific role is focused on sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use a consultative approach to prospect, build relationships, and sign up new 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
  • Consultative selling
  • Prospecting
  • Relationship building
  • Sales cycle management
  • Demo delivery
  • Solution development
  • CRM management (Salesforce)
  • Competitive analysis
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Retail operations experience

What the JD emphasized

  • founder’s mindset
  • founding team
  • entrepreneurial spirit
  • entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset
  • entrepreneurial and team environment
  • willingness to travel 25% or more