Sales Specialist

Job Purpose and Impact

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships across our retail partners’ organization, defending current business while identifying and advancing new growth opportunities. 


• Monitor customer activity, needs, performance, and service levels while acting as the primary first line of support to ensure continuous value creation. 


• Actively participate in procurement activities, supply execution, forecasting, demand planning, and Ad management. 


• Identify and pursue opportunities to broaden Cargill’s portfolio across customer categories. 


• Act as the primary interface between our retail partners and internal Cargill teams, collaborating cross functionally with procurement, marketing, insights, FSQR, and other partners to ensure operational alignment and drive mutual value and excellence to support customer needs. 


• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff. 


• Other duties as assigned 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 


• Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint 


• Confirmed ability to prepare and present customer proposals and presentations


• Minimum of two years of related work experience 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Retail experience and/or knowledge of protein products including but not limited to beef, grinds, case ready, value-added protein and deli. 


• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and manage complex change while delivering clear, actionable solutions 


• Strong relationship building experience, understanding customer needs and wants 


• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment 

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