K12 Manager Sales Account - New England

Tyson Foods; Vermont; On-site; USD 102,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tyson Foods is seeking a Sales Account Manager in Vermont to cultivate distributor and K-12 relationships, grow business, and negotiate pricing and programs to achieve volume targets.

You will work cross-functionally with marketing and trade teams, manage budgets, and deliver against market plans while maintaining strong communication with accounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years outside sales experience in Food Service, Food Service Manufacturing, or Distributor Sales.
• K-12 experience and commodity reprocessing experience preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic thinking, planning, negotiation skills, leadership and conflict resolution abilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and cultivate relationships with incremental accounts within the market.
• Gather, create, and maintain key account insights and CRM updates.
• Execute and manage strategic initiatives and sales plans.
• Collaborate with trade teams to deliver marketing programs and manage expenses.
• Provide sales support for market events, meetings, and product samplings.
• Deliver against volume goals and manage price actions and product mix.
• Manage T&E budget.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Negotiation skills

Leadership skills

Conflict resolution skills

Event planning execution

Excellent verbal and written comms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Details:

Summary:

Location: Candidate must be located in CT, MN, MA, RI, VT, NH

Territory: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

As a contributing Foodservice Sales team member, the Sales Account Manager will report directly to the Team Lead. The position will have regular interactions with the Team Lead and other TMs, while focused on cultivating relationships and growing business with assigned distributor and/or K-12 operator accounts. This person will be accountable for building relationships, providing solutions to customers, selling incremental items, negotiating pricing/programs and prioritizing efforts against market plans. This position is expected to work cross functionally with various business units and trade teams to grow new business, protect the core and create a competitive advantage while attaining mix and volume targets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and/or cultivate professional relationships with identifying and targeting incremental accounts, assigned accounts within the market/geography to achieve business objectives.
• Gather, create, and maintain key insight for all assigned accounts including key contacts, correspondence, size of business, product/category risks & opportunities; competitive set; calendar/ timing and potential hurdles. Maintain and track progress using the CRM tool all applicable parties are aware.
• Execute and manage all strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with Sales Development Business Units and Trade teams as needed to deliver and/or exceed sales plans by managing marketing programs. expense management and deduction resolution (as appropriate).
• Provide customer sales support for market events, meetings, presentations, product samplings and local trade shows.
• Must be able to deliver against assigned volume goals and execute price actions within the marketplace. Manage spend and manage the mix of product sold.
• Manage T&E Budget.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years outside sales experience Food Service, Food Service Manufacturing, or Distributor Sales.
• K-12 experience and commodity reprocessing experience preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Special Skills:

• Strategic thinking, planning, negotiation skills, understanding of motivational leadership skills, and conflict resolution skills.
• Event planning execution

Computer Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Office products.

Travel:

20-30%

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

No

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

Pay Range/Rate:

$102,000.00 - $170,000.00

Incentives:

• Annual Incentive Plan: Yes
• Long-Term Incentive Plan: No

All professional team members are expected to demonstrate responsible use of approved AI tools, including safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and validating AI-generated outputs. Individual Contributors should demonstrate the ability to integrate AI into daily work, improve efficiency through AI-enabled solutions, evaluate outputs critically, and apply professional judgment when using AI. People Leaders should demonstrate the ability to drive responsible AI adoption, enable effective use of approved solutions, identify opportunities to improve team performance through AI, and ensure accountability for the quality and accuracy of AI-supported outcomes.

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Any listed amounts represent the base pay range. Additional compensation may be available for this position based on various factors such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonuses. Pay is just one part of Tyson’s total compensation package.

Tyson will develop an offer based on a candidate's or team member’s relevant skills and capabilities, the market data for the role described in this requisition, internal equity, and other information relevant to the candidate and role.

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The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

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