Retail Key Account Manager

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Retail Key Account Manager will focus on a few of the company's large or very complex customers within a designated geographic territory or market. In this role, you will handle critical or complex products that require excellent client relationship skills to maintain competitive positioning.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop a plan to establish and maintain account relationships and meet personal sales targets.
• Proactively identify customer pain points and develop solutions to address unmet customer needs.
• Build and maintain a business plan for each account.
• Coordinate use of resource to provide value added services to accounts.
• Develop strong client relationships that provide significant input to planning product, price and service strategies.
• Support supervisor and other sales professionals in developing new market opportunities in the designated territory or market.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of four years of related work experience.
• Fluent written and spoken French and English.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.

KEY BEHAVIORS:

• Know the most effective and efficient processes to accomplish work, focusing on continuous improvement.
• Relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Develop and deliver multimode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Curious, resilient, and demonstrating a continuous willingness to learn.
• Recognized for natural leadership and the ability to inspire others.
• Agile & growth mindset.

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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