at Real Kansas Meats in Fall River, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Location: Fredonia, KS (based); routes to wholesale customers across the region
Type: Full-time
Pay: $40,000 base salary + 7% sales commission
Reports to: Processing Manager
Real Kansas Meats delivers premium, locally raised beef, pork, and poultry to families, restaurants, and retailers across the region. We're a growing company opening our Fredonia retail store and expanding online and wholesale. We're looking for people who take pride in quality work.
About the roleYou'll pick up product from our processing facility, deliver it to wholesale accounts throughout the week, and act as the face of Real Kansas Meats to those customers — taking orders, suggesting product, and opening new accounts along the way. The right person understands the meat industry and isn't afraid to walk into a restaurant or grocery and start a conversation.
Responsibilities- Pick up product from the processing facility and deliver to wholesale customers on a weekly route (primary pickup/delivery day Tuesday, deliveries throughout the week)
- Load, pre-sort, and organize product so drops are efficient and accurate
- Serve wholesale accounts — take orders, suggest additional product, and grow order size at existing stops
- Prospect and open new wholesale accounts (restaurants, grocers, and similar)
- Between routes, help with in-store inventory checks and product rotation (e.g., Wednesday inventory review)
- Represent the RKM brand professionally
- Working knowledge of meat cuts and grades — able to speak confidently about grinds (80/20 vs. 90/10), primals, loin cuts, and choice vs. select
- Sales-minded and outgoing; comfortable cold-calling and building relationships
- Valid driver's license and clean driving record
- In this role you will need to lift boxes of 40 lbs or greater
- Physically able to handle and load boxes of product
- Dependable and self-directed
- CDL (or willingness to obtain one)
- Prior food/meat sales or distribution experience (Sysco, EVCO, or similar)
- Interest in a longer-term path into plant or operations work
