Senior Product Line Specialist - Nutritional Solutions

cargill•Shorewood, MN

7d•$97,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position is in Cargill's Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a range of innovative ingredients and branded products including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate. The Senior Product Line Specialist – Nutritional Solutions will create and deliver distinctive value to the businesses. In this role, you will support across the Nutritional Solutions portfolio, including managing international sales and distribution, providing sales support to enable growth efforts, and supporting strategic planning / execution. Your knowledge will be important to efficiently sell products and drive business results, while also developing growth strategies and aligning with commercial strategy, targeted territory plans, strategic pricing plans, marketing coordination and individualized account plans. You will assist the team with contract negotiations, product trademark decisions, market intelligence, project management, customer forecasting and product solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related Commercial, Strategy, and/or Marketing work experience

Nice To Haves

Master's of business administration with a concentration in general management, finance or marketing
Experience in natural products, functional food/beverage, or dietary supplements
CRM expertise (Salesforce) creating and maintaining sales dashboards and communication
Experience successfully navigating in a cross-functional and matrixed environment

Responsibilities

Develop clear and focused territory planning, specific targets, account planning and routine follow up meetings with internal and external stakeholders, to exceed the annual contribution margin target for the assigned Product Lines.
Provide effective communication of the business strategy, growth objectives, sales initiatives, sales results and changes in the competitive landscape to the team and across businesses routinely.
Partner with commercial teams to evaluate import/export opportunities, customer requirements, and evolving global trade dynamics.
Manage international inventory replenishment and supply continuity while coordinating with supply chain, logistics, customer service, finance, and regulatory stakeholders.
Ensure compliance with import/export regulations, customs requirements, trade agreements, and internal governance processes.
Partner with research and development, supply chain, marketing, FSQR and operations to ensure a high success rate of commercialization.
Be the first point of contact for related customer service escalation and collaborate with functional teams to find solutions to improve service level to assigned customers.
Collaborate with the sales team to monitor and actively handle past due invoices and contracts to avoid margin leakage due to delinquent accounts.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Support strategy development and execution, including a more in-depth review of business strategies.
Other duties as assigned.