Account Manager Food

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Account Manager Food will primarily be responsible for the sales & development of our mayor industrial, local and European food customers. In this role, you will sell a variety of products, services and solutions across multiple lines of business for a defined group of existing clients, craft medium to long range sales plans and prepare strategies to protect, grow and diversify the relationship with a defined group of existing customers.

Possible locations include the UK, the Netherlands, or any other country where Cargill has an office.

Key Accountabilities

• Identify and handle interactions with assigned group of customers to establish sales opportunities.
• Resolve problems and ensure customers receive high quality service.
• Develop client retention and growth plans and strategies for developing profitable business with assigned accounts.
• Review and report on customer retention, business opportunities and market trends.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor degree.
• Proven experience in sales and account management, e.g. a career in a B2B environment with a proven sales and business development track record in food/feed ingredients.
• Excellent proficiency in English, both written and spoken
• Healthy business acumen & attitude, affinity with trading / risk management / agricultural commodities and markets.
• A hands-on, customer driven networker with an independent working style and proven analytical- as well as presentation skills.
• Approachable with high self-awareness.

KEY BEHAVIORS

• Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:

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