Area Manager - Evansville, IN

ADM; Alaska; On-site; USD 55,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM Ag Services and Oilseeds in Evansville, IN, is seeking an Area Sales Manager to lead a team of sales professionals focused on grain origination and regenerative ag initiatives. You will drive growth, build long-term producer relationships, and coordinate with regenerative ag and fertilizer teams.

The role emphasizes coaching, market strategy, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver value to producers while navigating evolving industry dynamics.

Qualifications

• 7+ years sales experience
• Ability to evaluate risk and lead professional sales calls with customers and prospects
• Dedication to be a positive and professional team leader
• Ability to coach, mentor, and develop sales staff across functions
• Self-starter who communicates areas for business improvement
• Strong analytical abilities, initiative and problem-solving in a changing environment
• Excellent oral and written communication with ADM stakeholders
• Basic understanding of grain markets and production agriculture

Responsibilities

• Lead and support farm direct grain origination, strategy, and growth with a sales team
• Build trusted advisor relationships by uncovering customer needs and delivering value
• Develop customer acuity to understand footprint, growth plans, tech strategy, and competition
• Learn region's origination footprint and strategic goals amid evolving market landscape
• Provide market opinions to inform team and customers about opportunities
• Implement prospecting and pipeline development plans for each territory
• Evaluate and coach team performance, mentoring and strategic staffing
• Collaborate with ADM partners on asset goals and alignment

Skills

Sales leadership

Team management

Strategic planning

Customer relationships

Communication

Salesforce

Territory planning

Microsoft Office

Time management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Office

Teams

Mobile technology

Job description

Job Description

Area Manager - Evansville, IN

ADM Ag Services and Oilseeds

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Position Summary

As an Area Sales Manager, you will lead a team of talented sales professionals who are responsible for earning the right to do business with producer customers. These long-term relationships help secure supply chains critical to feeding the world’s growing population, improving diets, and decarbonizing the environment through regenerative ag practices. With the direction of your Regional Sales Manager, you will have responsibility for a large sales territory, overseeing the origination activities for ADM’s Evansville & Silver Grove business.

You might be the right candidate if you have experience with leading a sales team, and background in the agricultural industry around production agriculture and its interconnected markets. Your skill set should encompass collaborating seamlessly with both direct and indirect stakeholders, building and leading a team of sales professionals to achieve desired results, and playing a pivotal role in serving producers while they navigate the intricacies of regen ag programs and marketing decisions.

We’re looking for highly passionate candidates who have relentless curiosity, a fresh start-up mentality, and desire to make a meaningful impact in the ag industry. Your attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple priorities will be crucial for success in an environment where ambiguity and change happen often.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and support farm direct grain origination, strategy, and growth with a team of sales personnel while staying in lock step with operational and commercial business partners including regenerative ag and fertilizer
• Become a trusted advisor by establishing positive relationships based on your ability to uncover customer needs and dedication to delivering value
• Develop customer acuity to understand each customer’s footprint, strategic growth plans, technology strategy and the competitive landscape
• Learn and develop the region's unique origination footprint, strategic goals, technological plans, and ever-evolving competitive landscape.
• Develop market opinion to help inform team members and customers of market opportunities
• Implement consistent prospecting and pipeline development plans of each team member tailored to their individual territories
• Evaluate and manage the strengths and weaknesses of your team through uplifting coaching, mentoring, and strategic staffing
• Provide and encourage leadership and education of grain and related markets to sales team members and other ADM stakeholders
• Collaborate with commercial partners on asset specific goals and ensure alignment

Who We’re Looking For:

Preferred

• 7+ years sales experience
• Demonstrate capacity to evaluate and manage risk, along with an understanding of how to lead and conduct professional sales calls with customers and prospects
• Dedication to be a positive & professional team leader
• Ability to function as a leader to coach, mentor, and develop sales staff with strong collaboration across other job functions
• Self-starter who will communicate area’s for the business to improve internally and externally
• Strong analytical abilities, initiative and problem-solving skills necessary to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Effective oral and written communication skills as well as ability to interface with various levels within ADM
• Basic understanding of grain markets, grain contracting methods, related ag markets and offerings, production agriculture and the application of those to the producer

Minimum

• Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office suite including Outlook and Teams
• Proficient in the use and application of mobile technology
• Dedication to utilize technology applications that are critical to sales activities
• Commitment to own the use of Salesforce to track customer interactions and capture critical business information
• Commitment to territory planning, development and efficient execution
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
• Early adopter of new technology and ability to lead and influence other target users
• Bachelor’s Degree required

Before applying for an exempt, non-exempt or hourly job opportunity, you are expected to initiate a discussion and share your intentions with your supervisor. * If you’ve been in your current position for more than 18 months, supervisor approval is not required. * If you’ve been in your current position for less than 18 months, verbal supervisor approval is required.

City

Evansville

State

IN - Indiana

Location Country

United States

About ADM
At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at www.adm.com.

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Hourly and salaried non‑exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours.
If hired, employees will be in an “at‑will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
The pay range for this position is expected to be between:

$54,600.00 - $102,000.00

Salaried Incentive Plan

The total compensation package for this position will also include annual bonus