Job Description
Job Title: Technical Sales Specialist - Animal Nutrition
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. We partner with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world.
The primary focus for this role is to promote Kerry's Taste & Nutrition, Animal Health and Nutrition platforms to the European Animal Nutrition Market. This person will work closely with the technical team to present our products and data to customers, showcasing the benefits of using our technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Relationships: Establish Kerry as a long-term supplier at national accounts by developing, maintaining, and expanding strong customer working relationships at multiple levels and functions.
- Sales Budgets: Participate in the development of annual sales budget targets for assigned accounts and take appropriate actions to achieve targets.
- Account Maintenance: Ensure that appropriate resources and actions are recommended to address customer-based issues, including competitive threats, product and service complaints, and sales erosion.
- Sales Growth: Pursue and support long-term divisional growth through the development of overall strategies for assigned accounts. Identify and recommend new technologies and new market opportunities related to the customer base.
- Project Management: Develop project opportunities and ensure communication flow between customers and relevant cross-functional areas.
Qualifications:
- Animal Nutrition background, B.S. Animal Science or higher.
- Preferably someone with previous working experience with Animal Nutrition additives, specifically enzymes.
- Must speak English and be able to write in English.
- Proven experience in technical sales to the Animal Nutrition Industry.
- Experience in Animal Nutrition or Production strongly recommended.
- Strong computer, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Requires a minimum of 50% travel throughout Europe.
Company Overview: Kerry's vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers opportunities to shape the future of food while exploring and growing in a truly global environment.