Sales Manager (Gourmet)

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 cocoa and chocolate, and similar.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Sales Manager (Gourmet) will participate in face-to-face and remote selling to our new and existing customers, selling through various sales channels. We seek a results-oriented professional with first experience in the chocolate gourmet sector who, with guidance, will help assess customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services and solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to developing and delivering sales bids, presentations and proposals and participating in product demonstrations.
• Help identify and contact prospective customers, building relationships to generate future sales and repeat business.
• With basic knowledge of products, their characteristics and market, sell and stimulate demand for a series of products.
• Plan daily activities, including customer visits and quantitative and qualitative objectives to achieve.
• Follow market and competition evolution, passing information to senior staff.
• 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.
• First experience in the chocolate gourmet sector.
• Excellent command of Spanish and English.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.

PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES

• Sell in distributor channel.
• Process orders.
• Support sales representatives and channel partners.

KEY BEHAVIORS

• Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Build strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
• Relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED

• Help identify and contact prospective customers, building relationships to generate future sales and repeat business.
• Market, sell and stimulate demand for a series of products.

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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