Cargill

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Area Sales Manager -General Trade, will sell directly to the company's consumers or business purchasers or indirectly through various sales channels. In this role, you will help identify and contact prospective customers, building relationships to generate future sales and repeat business, participate in assessing customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services and solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• With supervision, help identify, develop and close new sales.
• Help support business growth by disseminating information that favorably promotes the organization and its products and services.
• Help monitor customer and competitor activity and industry trends.
• With supervision, coordinate market research, pricing and sales and merchandising activities.
• Participate in regular status and strategy meetings with customers' senior management to understand and meet their needs.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of experience in related field or equivalent experience
• Having experience in edible oil field or FMCG 
• Three years of supervisory experience
• Good Interpersonal skills and Technical Savvy who can demonstrate reports of teams by using PowerPoint