Jr. Sales Associate

Junior Sales Associate

Snack Hive | Portland Metro Area

Entry Level | No Sales Experience Required

About Snack Hive

Snack Hive is a growing vending and workplace amenities company serving businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest. We provide snack and beverage vending, workplace refreshments, and coffee service to offices, warehouses, residential communities, and other businesses.

We’re expanding throughout the Portland metro area and are looking for motivated people who want to learn sales, develop real business experience, and grow with the company.

About the Role

Snack Hive is looking for Junior Sales Associates to help us identify and develop new business opportunities throughout the Portland area.

No previous sales experience is required. We’ll provide the process, training, sales materials, and guidance. What we expect from you is the initiative to put those resources to work.

A major part of this role is learning how to build your own sales pipeline from the ground up. You will research potential customers, identify qualified businesses, find the right decision-makers, conduct outreach, follow up consistently, and develop those prospects into real sales opportunities.

This is not a position where you simply work through a list of leads provided to you. You’ll learn how to create opportunities for yourself and manage them from the first contact through the sale.

What You'll Do

• Research and identify potential Snack Hive customers

• Build and maintain your own pipeline of prospective businesses

• Find the appropriate decision-makers within each organization

• Prospect through phone calls, email, online research, networking, and in-person outreach

• Introduce businesses to Snack Hive's vending and coffee services

• Ask questions to understand the customer's needs and determine whether the location qualifies

• Follow up consistently with prospects

• Work through objections and understand why a prospect may not be ready to move forward

• Move qualified opportunities through the Snack Hive sales process

• Collect the information required to complete a new customer sale

• Maintain accurate records of prospects, conversations, and follow-up activity

• Use company sales materials, Google Drive resources, and your assigned sales tracking tools

• Develop the prospecting, communication, and closing skills needed to advance within the sales team

What We Expect

You don't need sales experience, but you do need to be willing to do the work required to create sales opportunities.

Successful Junior Sales Associates will be expected to:

• Consistently prospect for new business

• Take ownership of building their own lead list and pipeline

• Be comfortable making cold calls and contacting people they have never spoken with before

• Follow up instead of giving up after the first conversation

• Stay organized and keep accurate prospect records

• Learn and follow Snack Hive's sales and qualification process

• Ask questions and understand the customer's actual needs

• Accept coaching and apply feedback

• Work independently without needing constant direction

• Be accountable for their activity and results

We're looking for people who are resourceful. If you run out of leads, the expectation isn't to wait for more—the expectation is to know how to go find more.

Who We're Looking For

You may be a strong fit if you are:

• Motivated and competitive

• Comfortable talking to new people

• Persistent without being pushy

• Resourceful and willing to figure things out

• Organized and dependable

• Comfortable working independently

• Interested in learning sales and business development

• Able to handle rejection and keep moving

• Looking for an opportunity where performance can lead to advancement

Experience in retail, restaurants, customer service, fundraising, canvassing, hospitality, or other customer-facing work can be helpful, but professional sales experience is not required.

Career Growth

This is the entry point into Snack Hive's sales career path.

Junior Sales Associates who demonstrate that they can consistently prospect, build a pipeline, qualify opportunities, and close business can advance into:

Junior Sales Associate → Senior Sales Associate → Account Manager → Senior Account Manager

Advancement is based on demonstrated performance and sales results rather than simply time in the position.

Junior Sales Associates complete a Sales Skills Assessment during their fourth week and work toward completing their first 3 qualified sales as part of the advancement process.

Snack Hive also offers a $250 employee referral bonus for qualifying referrals who are hired.

What You'll Learn

This role provides hands-on experience in:

• B2B sales

• Prospecting

• Lead generation

• Building a sales pipeline

• Cold calling

• Email outreach

• Lead qualification

• Finding and reaching decision-makers

• Objection handling

• Sales follow-up

• Pipeline management

• Closing

• Account development

If you want to learn how to generate your own opportunities instead of waiting for someone to hand them to you, this is a place to build that skill.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $500.00 - $5,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

• Health insurance

• Paid time off

• Work from home

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Experience:

• B2B sales: 1 year (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Portland, OR 97206