Account Manager - North America - Remote in the US
Job Description
Account Manager – North America – Remote in the US
This is an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Account Manager to cover the NA market in the plant-based oils, fiber and protein space for the Nutraceutical, Food and Beverage companies in the United States.
Job Details:
- Understand the plant protein, fiber and oils customer network and industry trends.
- Drive sales policies and programs to achieve U.S. NA sales and profit goals.
- Build and manage strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain a resilient, proactive mindset to meet customer expectations.
- Provide technical / application insights to customers in partnership with innovation and technical teams.
- Develop deep knowledge of Global plant fiber and proteins company’s full product portfolio.
- Support the plant protein, fiber and oils commercial team with specialty sales expertise and insights.
- Maintain a strong opportunity pipeline and participate in trade associations.
- Align innovations, applications, marketing, and BU teams with the plant protein, fiber and oils strategy.
Salary
Up to $160,000 + Bonus
Benefits Available
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, business or related
- 5+ years of sales, specifically for the plant protein, fiber and oils ingredients into nutraceutical, food and beverage companies.
- Strong competencies in Sales, Marketing, or Product Development.
- Deep understanding of the selling process and the plant protein, fiber and oils industry.
- Experience selling functional food ingredients and supporting technical marketing.
- Demonstrated strength in negotiations, planning, and execution.
- Experience with Salesforce.com or similar CRM tools.
- Excellent communication skills across matrixed teams; ability to travel up to 50%.
Keys to Hire:
- Direct experience selling plant protein, fiber and oils to manufacturers or major CPG customers.
- Proven success growing technical ingredient sales.
- Ability to translate technical insights into compelling customer value.
**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at ksullivan@cps4jobs.com.
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The Food and Beverage Division specializes in the placement of technical professionals in the food and beverage industry from entry level to executive level candidates. I have a talented group of recruiters who specifically source Technical Sales Professionals, Scientists, Regulatory Affairs, Scientific Affairs, Executive Technical professionals, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Technical Service, Nutrition, Analytical and Corporate Chefs. We work on both a contingent basis for professional level searches and retained search for executive level searches. CPS, Inc. has been in the talent recruitment business for 40+ years and we recruit nationwide.