Sales Territory Representative
This is a full-time sales position in the Ruminant business located in South Central Nebraska (Nebraska, Kearney-Lincoln). Our Territory Representatives interact face to face with our customers, understand their needs and offer the right solutions. We work collaboratively with the Field Sales Teams and play a critical role in supporting our customer centric business model. This position is responsible for working in their respective territory to understand and identify customer needs, by selling our Company's Animal Health division cattle products, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that our Company's Animal Health division is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus the Science of Healthier Animals. In addition, the Territory Representative demonstrates an understanding of the resources available across our Company's Animal Health division and our Distribution Partners.
This role will cover the South Central Nebraska territory. It is required that our sales employees reside in the territory in which they cover.
Key responsibilities may include, but are not limited to :
- Communicates about product in a way that's meaningful and relevant to each individual customer; customizes discussions and interactions based on understanding of customer's needs
- Primary point of contact for assigned customers, meets with key personnel / decision makers to understand enterprise structure, business model, key influencers, customer needs and identifies business opportunities.
- Develop customer strategy - outlining strategy for interactions / relationship, solutions, partner involvement and potential offerings for customer resulting in sales opportunities and account sales growth of our Company's Animal Health division products and services.
- Develop territory and specific account plans for all assigned customers. Partners with National Account Managers, Corporate Account Team, and Distribution Field Partners to maintain strong focus on accounts to drive sales growth.
- Work collaboratively across all species teams to foster our company's approach to enhance knowledge of the entire Animal Health product portfolio.
- Shares with other team members within the region to foster growth and development within the team.
- Analyze sales results on a monthly basis and manage expenses within budget guidelines.
- Works with leadership and Field Technical Services to develop and deliver relevant offerings that address desired customer needs.
- Develop current understanding of our Company's Animal Health division products, industry trends and competitor landscape, business model, key influencers / network structure and make information available to relevant stakeholders and to influence sales trends.
- Articulates and communicates relevant customer, industry, product, and market trends appropriately through the organization.
- Responsible for developing and meeting learning and development objectives agreed upon with leadership.
Education :
High school diploma or equivalent required.Bachelor's degree preferred.Preferred Experience and Skills :
Cattle Experience / KnowledgePast Leadership Roles (FFA, State Associations, etc.)Past Internships / Experience in the Animal Health IndustryAbility to adapt in a changing environmentAbility to work independently and as part of a teamAbility to travel overnight and some weekend activityAnimal Health and / or monitoring experienceExisting relationships and connections in the territory are a plusRequired Skills :
Account ManagementAdaptabilityAnimal Health CareAnimal ScienceBeef Cattle ManagementBusiness ManagementBusiness Model DevelopmentBusiness OpportunitiesClient-CentricCommunicationCustomer Experience ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer StrategyData AnalysisInbound Phone SalesLead GenerationMarket AnalyticsMarket TrendsProduct KnowledgeSales ForecastingSales OperationsSales Pipeline ManagementSales ReportingSales Strategy DevelopmentPreferred Skills :
The salary range for this role is $77,700.00 - $122,300.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.
Requisition ID : R371944