Sales Manager – Ruminants

Role Overview

Develop relationships with strategic accounts in the animal nutrition market, targeting operating profit targets and identifying products and services to meet customer needs. The role involves prospecting, qualifying new sales leads, and collaborating with sales and technical service teams to ensure requirements are met.

What You Will Do

Prospect and qualify new sales leads, partner with product management and technical services teams, create account management strategy, drive revenue and adoption, and cultivate positive interactions with sales representatives and executives.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of company products and services, as well as business position and competition, and will be able to build strong relationships with prospects and customers, set customer cadence, and identify potential accounts while maintaining clear concise financial goals and opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 5+ years of adequate knowledge in animal nutrition, including current trends in production, nutrition, and specialty additive landscape
• Proven work experience as an Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Technical sales manager
• Experience in implementation of business development strategy
• Ability to solve problems and build strong relationships with key customer base
• Superior verbal and written communication, time management, and organizational skills
• Effective presentation and sales skills around specialty additives
• Training on and mastering new specialty additive technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills