Strategic Ruminant Sales Leader - Key Accounts & Growth

ADM; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM Animal Nutrition, a division of Archer Daniels Midland Company, seeks a proven leader in account management and sales to drive relationships with key ruminant-focused accounts across the U.S. The role centers on uncovering customer goals and positioning ADM AN products to meet and exceed those needs.

The position emphasizes developing strategic plans, collaborating across product management and technical teams, and delivering presentations to meet objectives while building brand loyalty.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Proven work experience asAccount Manager / Key Account Manager / Technical sales manager.
• Experience implementing business development strategy.
• Ability to solve problems and build strong relationships with key customer base.
• Superior verbal and written communication, time management, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Prospect and qualify new sales leads.
• Partner with Product Management and Technical Services Teams.
• Create account management strategy.
• Relay market trends, needs, and requirements to product and technical teams.
• Drive revenue, adoption and capture market share.
• Collaborate with sales and technical service teams to ensure requirements are met such as sales numbers and profit goals.
• Cultivating positive interactions and relationships with sales representatives, team leaders and managers, and executives to evaluate sales strategy and results.
• Builds market position by locating, developing, defining, and closing business relationships.
• Developing ways to improve customer experience and build brand loyalty.
• Strong understanding of company products & services as well as business position and competition to keep business competitive.
• Planning and driving new marketing initiatives.
• Create plan and deliver presentations on company products to meet customer objectives.
• Track all sales activities in company CRM system and keep current by adapting account information weekly
• Communicate customer and prospect product pain points to appropriate departments
• Maintain a well-developed pipeline of prospects
• Develop strong, ongoing relationships with prospects and customers
• Set Customer Cadence in order to Meet and/or exceed quotas
• Identify all potential accounts while maintaining & analyzing clear concise financial goals and opportunities via salesforce.
• Monitor and report feed ingredient pricing in the assigned region along with other feed industry trends and competitor activities.
• Work closely with assigned customer service professional to efficiently service customer needs.

Skills

Account management

Sales leadership

Strategic selling

Customer relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

ADM Animal Nutrition, a division of Archer Daniels Midland Company, seeks a proven leader in account management and sales to drive relationships with key ruminant-focused accounts across the U.S. The role centers on uncovering customer goals and positioning ADM AN products to meet and exceed those needs.

The position emphasizes developing strategic plans, collaborating across product management and technical teams, and delivering presentations to meet objectives while building brand loyalty.