Strategic Growth Lead, Eggs & Nutrition (NAM)

Symrise AG; Hodges (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Symrise in the US seeks a Senior Strategic Sales Leader to actively support and challenge the NAM Sales team, lead strategic accounts, and develop account-level growth strategies for Eggs & Nutrition solutions.

You will translate strategy into compelling value narratives, localize materials for the US market, train the NAM team on products, and build competitive market intelligence to steer portfolio decisions. Travel across NAM is expected.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in Business, Marketing, Nutrition, Food Science, or related field.
• 7+ years in B2B business development, strategic sales, or commercial leadership, ideally in Nutritional ingredient, feed, Pet Food, Specialty ingredients.
• Proven track record of driving growth in competitive markets
• Know feed company products and production techniques and their constraints.
• Strong exposure to US customers and NAM market dynamics
• Fluent English mandatory
• Willingness to travel across the NAM region

Responsibilities

• Actively support and challenge the NAM Sales team to grow Eggs (and adjacent platforms such as Peptides / NEM where relevant).
• Personally lead selected strategic accounts, prospects, and white-space customers not currently covered due to size or segmentation constraints.
• Define and deploy account-level growth strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Support value-based selling, pricing logic, and deal structuring in complex customer negotiations.
• Translate the business strategy into clear sales narratives, value propositions, and priority targets.
• Adapt and localize VP, pitch decks, and sales tools to the specificities of the US market.
• Together with Product Manager train and upskill the NAM Sales team on Eggs & Nutrition solutions, applications, and competitive differentiation.
• Support product Manager to build and continuously update a robust competitive and market intelligence on Eggs, Nutrition, and adjacent ingredients in NAM.
• Identify emerging trends, customer needs, competitive moves, and pricing dynamics.
• Feed actionable insights into Sales, product manager, and leadership to steer portfolio and commercial priorities.
• Define market-driven innovation and renovation priorities
• Act as the voice of the US customer in portfolio and innovation discussions.
• Coordinate Sales, PM, Marketing, R&D, Regulatory, and Supply Chain around clear growth priorities(exports).
• Incremental sales growth and margin improvement on Eggs & Nutrition in NAM
• Number and quality of new customer activations

Skills

Fluent English

Willingness to travel across NAM

Education

Master's degree or equivalent in Business, Marketing, Nutrition, Food Science, or related field

Job description

Symrise in the US seeks a Senior Strategic Sales Leader to actively support and challenge the NAM Sales team, lead strategic accounts, and develop account-level growth strategies for Eggs & Nutrition solutions.

You will translate strategy into compelling value narratives, localize materials for the US market, train the NAM team on products, and build competitive market intelligence to steer portfolio decisions. Travel across NAM is expected.