Manager, Sales

George's • Springdale, AR

14d

About The Position

The Sales Manager is responsible for daily sales related items associated with plants in George’s Chicken Divisions. These items include but are not limited to weekly sales of excess product, frozen inventory management, customer freight optimization and “other” product sales. The Sales Manager will work on a day to day basis to ensure sales, production planning, operations, and logistics are properly aligned at the plant level to execute and ensure optimal profits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Poultry Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience in sales or production planning environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically in Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Develop new and foster current relationships with internal and external customers as it relates to existing weekly business and pricing or the opportunity for new customers/business.
• Execute weekly pricing management to ensure products are properly billed based on formulas and agreed upon freight.
• Identify and correct freight opportunities as they pertain to light loads or movement of customers shipping days to ensure freight rate optimization and improvement of on-time delivery.
• Collaborate with Sales team to identify products in need of an upgrade, this could relate to an upgrade on pricing or in product mix.
• Collaborate with Production/Operations teams to inform them on sales related issues at the plant level as well as being the source for sales related questions on product mix, pricing or products sold.
• Identify products being sent to cold storage that would have a better value proposition being sold fresh.
• Understand and utilize Agristats and EMI as a tool for benchmarking improvements in pricing and mix.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager