Sales Account Manager - 15 Month Term
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Sales Account Manager will develop customer sales strategies and build relationships based on the company's values. In this role, you will help identify and contact prospective customers and build relationships and contribute to the assessment of customer needs and suggest appropriate protein products, services and solutions that maximize product revenue and improves profitability.
Key Accountabilities
- Align with customer partners to sell beef products, quoting and negotiating product pricing within pricing function guidelines.
- Develop customer sales strategies to meet customer goals and objectives.
- Process customer orders and manage overall order fill rate and on time delivery service.
- Gather and communicate channel, market, customer or competitive information and intelligence and interact with team on strategy and pricing functions.
- Support contracts and risk with pricing and trade promotions teams then resolve and coordinate the investigation of claims and disputes.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Diploma/Certificate or Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Proven negotiation and selling skills and experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in beef sales, agriculture trading or retail
- SAP experience
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency in MS Office
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Position Information
- This position is a 15 month term position.
- This position is located in High River, Alberta and offers a hybrid work arrangement.
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