Cargill

Key Account Manager

Cargill

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

SaltStack

About the role

  • Focus on driving Cargill’s Micronutrition and Health Solutions (MHS) additives business across the pet food, treats, and supplement categories
  • Drive adoption of Cargill postbiotic and phytogenic solutions, including TruMune and EpiCor postbiotics
  • Support partners’ interest in well-researched, effective functional health solutions and accelerate adoption into finished products and brands
  • Support development of Cargill’s commercial Pet strategies and craft medium to long range initiatives to protect, grow, and diversify sales base in North America
  • Lead new customer acquisition efforts and grow pipeline of business opportunity
  • Develop client retention and growth plans and strategies for existing account base
  • Identify and handle interactions with varied customer roles – marketing, technical, commercial
  • Resolve problems and ensure customers receive high quality service
  • Work closely with other Cargill functional leaders including Technical Services, Marketing and Global counterparts
  • Provide expert thought leadership and work with limited direction
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of six years of related work experience in sales, business development or related field
  • Sales and category experience with pet food, treats, supplement and/or pet ingredient categories
  • Able and willing to travel up to 25% travel
  • Valid driver’s license in good standing
  • Demonstrated strong drive for identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, with a proactive, independent, and action-oriented mindset (Preferred)
  • Ample depth of knowledge of pet category market landscape and key drivers of growth (Preferred)
  • Experience working with Salesforce (Preferred)