Dairy Focus Consultant (Open to remote)
About The Position
This position is in Cargill's specialized portfolio enterprise, serving diverse businesses that support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt, and Cargill joint ventures. The Dairy Focus Consultant will provide nutrition recommendations and support to customers during and after product sales. This role involves direct consultation with dairy farmers and their employees, requiring a passion for the dairy industry and comfort working on farms with dairy farm employees, ownership, and affiliated dairy representatives. The position requires setting and working towards performance goals aligned with territory and dairy leadership team objectives. This is a home office position requiring up to 75% travel to cover the area of responsibility, visiting dairy farms daily in Western New York.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Ability to travel up to 75% to visit dairy farms daily
- Minimum of four years of related work experience in sales or business development or related field
- Valid driver’s license in good standing
- Dairy and animal nutrition experience
Nice To Haves
- Sales experience
- Consulting experience
Responsibilities
- Inform customers of new products, services and prices through a consultative approach to dairy nutrition and management.
- Support Cargill team members through collaborative efforts to service dairy customers.
- Develop and deliver proposals and presentations and help conduct product demonstrations.
- Build, monitor and revise the monthly performance of objectives versus budget and implement actions to reach them.
- Assess customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services and solutions.
- Build, develop and maintain internal and external customer relationships with dairy producers, mills and Cargill team mates.
- Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
