Overview

Farming Karma is looking for a motivated and organized Sales Lead to help grow our fresh fruit and beverage business.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys sales, building customer relationships, working with data, and finding new opportunities. You'll help drive current business, support existing customers, coordinate sales activities, analyze sales trends, and work closely with our marketing and management teams.

We're looking for someone who is comfortable with technology, strong with Excel, proactive, and eager to learn and grow. Experience in sales is an asset, but we're equally interested in finding someone with the right attitude, organization, and drive.

If you're the type of person who sees an opportunity and takes initiative to make something happen, we'd love to hear from you.

Duties

- Help identify and develop current sales opportunities for our fruit and beverage products
- Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers
- Coordinate regular customer outreach, follow-ups and order opportunities
- Communicate with retail buyers, head offices and store-level contacts
- Prepare pricing, promotional and volume opportunities for management review
- Build and maintain promotional calendars for key customers
- Analyze sales data and identify trends, opportunities and areas needing attention
- Maintain accurate customer, lead and opportunity information in CRM
- Coordinate sales activities and follow-ups with other members of the sales team




- Work closely with marketing to support customer promotions and drive sales
- Assist with sales forecasting and identifying products or inventory that need additional focus
- Respond to sales inquiries and coordinate customer issues with the appropriate internal teams
- Attend customer meetings, store visits and industry trade shows
- Keep management informed of key opportunities, customer updates and sales performance

Qualifications

- Previous experience in sales, business development or customer-facing roles
- Strong computer skills and confidence learning new software
- Comfortable working with Excel, spreadsheets and sales data
- Strong communication skills by phone, email and in person
- Organized with excellent follow-up and attention to detail
- Comfortable reaching out to new customers and starting conversations
- Able to identify problems, investigate them and suggest solutions
- Self-motivated and able to take initiative without constant direction
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, team-oriented environment
- Experience with HubSpot or another CRM is an asset, but not required
- Experience in grocery, food, beverage, agriculture or retail is an asset, but not required
- Post-secondary education in business, sales, marketing or a related field is an asset

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who is motivated, takes initiative, and is excited to learn, grow, and build a career with our team. Pay: From $23.00 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Work Location: In person

📌 Sales Lead (Kelowna)
🏢 Farming Karma
📍 Kelowna