Salary
💰 $130,000 - $180,000 per year
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)