Digital Sales and Implementation Specialist - Poultry North America (Open to remote)

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Digital Sales and Implementation Specialist for Poultry North America, is responsible for developing and executing Cargill Digital Solutions’ commercial vision and achieve short- and medium-term goals for the customer accounts that will drive growth for Cargill Animal Nutrition, while providing customers with software and technology solutions to improve customer production and profitability.

This role will focus on explaining the value of the Digital portfolio of software and technology in close collaboration with local Cargill nutrition poultry sales teams. As such, we seek a seasoned professional that can work independently, knows the poultry industry well, has excellent customer relationship skills, and is able to become a subject matter expert in applying different technology in poultry production.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and execute the sales planning process for complex accounts for multiple value propositions and solutions as part of the account plan.
• Develop and structure complex sales proposals that represent maximum value optimization to customer and business.
• Develop strong client relationships that provide significant input to planning product, price and service strategies.
• Work with Cargill Animal Nutrition sales teams to align on goals and build actions plans to achieve results.
• Analyze competitor capabilities to determine gaps and to position offerings against competitive options.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years of work experience in value added sales solution in poultry nutrition or animal health industry.
• Minimum 4 years of work experience in value added sales in poultry nutrition, animal health, or poultry production.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven sales performance that demonstrates high accountability, strong initiative, with a sense-of-urgency and an entrepreneurial approach.
• Experience with implementing or using digital technology (installation, demos, training) within the poultry industry.
• Solid interpersonal skills; being an effective listener, verbal, and written communication.
• Experience with project management or go-to-market plans.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to communicate effectively with Excel or PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to 25% within North America.

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External Applicant Information

The expected salary for this position is approx. $100K. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance. Full-Time (30+ hours) positions are eligible for a benefits package including the following:  Paid time off; paid holidays; medical, vision and dental coverage; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability insurance; retirement savings; employee and family assistance program (EAP.)

 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.