Company Description

Food Specialties is a family‑owned Canadian company providing best‑tasting ice cream ingredients to local and international customers for 40+ years. We partner with national and regional brands to deliver exceptional products across dairy, bakery, and frozen desserts.

Role Description

We are hiring a Food Science graduate with early B2B sales experience to grow our customer base in dairy, bakery and frozen desserts. This is a hands-on selling role: you own your accounts, prospect for new ones, and work alongside our lab team to develop custom ingredient solutions for ice cream makers.

Your technical background is the advantage. You will learn our products well enough to sit with a customer's R&D; director and talk credibly about formulation, performance and application. If you love the science of food but want a commercial career, this role is built for you.

What you will do

- Manage and grow a portfolio of existing customers across Canada, the UK and international markets
- Prospect and win new customers through outreach, trade shows and referrals
- Turn customer needs into product solutions
- Work with production, quality and logistics to keep customers happy and orders on track
- Represent us at industry trade shows and keep us ahead of market trends

What we are looking for

- A degree in Food Science or a related discipline: Food Engineering, Nutrition, Chemistry
- 2–5 years of B2B sales experience,



ideally selling ingredients or related products to food manufacturers
- Explicit, confident communication, comfortable presenting to senior customer contacts
- Working knowledge of food formulation and ingredient functionality, and the ability to turn technical attributes into customer value
- Evidence you can generate new business — cold outreach, pipeline building and the follow-through to close
- Someone who works independently in a small, entrepreneurial company and follows through without close supervision
- Curious about ice cream, dairy, bakery and frozen desserts, and eager to learn a product category in depth
- Bilingual English/French is an asset
- Comfortable travelling across Canada and internationally, including customer visits in smaller markets
- Coachable, and motivated to grow into a senior commercial role as the company grows

On-site in Mississauga, five days a week, with 10–20% travel across Canada and to select international markets. Base salary $65,000–$85,000 plus uncapped commission, depending on relevant ingredient or B2B sales experience (the top of the range reflects 4–5 years of direct technical sales; those earlier in their sales career will start nearer the lower end).

Extensive product training, hands-on mentorship from senior leadership and our technical team, and yes, the ice cream sampling is real.

📌 Sales Manager – Food Ingredients (Food Science Background) (Mississauga)
🏢 Food Specialties
📍 Mississauga