Account Manager, Food – MN/SD (1820)
Our client, a food and dairy company, is seeking an Account Manager to join their team in the Food industry. This person would be responsible for growing the business through new opportunities while maintaining current accounts.
Requirements:
- Must have food industry experience; food ingredients sales, food packaging or sanitation chemical sales sold into food-especially dairy processing.
- Sales experience preferred.
- 4-year degree preferred, not required.
- Passionate and energetic about the job.
- Very service oriented/ Enjoys solving problems/intellectually curious.
- Mature/Likes independence and autonomy.
Location/Travel: Home-office based in MN or SD. Very limited overnight travel.
Why Consider This Job/Company?
- The business has been growing and expanding rapidly over the last 3 years.
- EXTENSIVE advancement opportunities. Sales is the best place to start in the organization because it introduces you to the whole product line and positions you for all kinds of bigger roles.
- They provide EXCEPTIONAL service to their suppliers.
- Just negotiated new supplier relationships with majors.
- They buy very well. They do what their suppliers can do and then some. They add as much or more value to those who they represent.
- They have their own quality department that does document production, maintains 7 control which takes that burden off their suppliers.
- Very open culture: Everyone is very approachable and open. Everyone can talk to anyone about anyone.
- They sell against their competition by providing genuine and deep tech support and service vs commodity sale.
- Culture there is that it’s extremely important that employees enjoy their work and have work life balance and that it’s a positive experience to be there.
- Good support for customers; their website is robust for customer service. While the website is very dated, they have a new marketing person who is working to overhaul it.
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