Sales Account Manager

Your Opportunity

As a Sales Team member, your primary responsibility would be introducing and placing new products with customers, executing organizational initiatives, and driving sales on key items with strategic customers for long-term growth. Whether it is bacon, ham, fresh pork or another product category you will work directly with the customers and cross-functional with everyone from Business Management to our Plant Operations to deliver the service and products to our customers and consumers.

This position will support a Sales Director, Regional Sales Manager, or National Accounts Manager for a specific account(s). The individual will be responsible for establishing and maintaining customer relationships with assigned key customers through daily corporate to corporate contact to communicate pricing, product availability, and order management. The primary responsibility will be introducing and placing new products with customers, executing organizational initiatives, and driving sales of key items with strategic customers for long-term growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Accountable for achieving budgeted sales of consumer goods to key customers.
• Develops and achieves maximum sales volume consistent with realistic sales projections for accounts served.
• Maintain business with existing accounts for continued growth.
• Maintain current knowledge of Smithfield's product management and research and development efforts in order to increase sales and satisfy customer requests for new items.
• Develop working relations with personnel at various levels in order to communicate product availability, logistics information, product specifications, and pricing as needed.
• Ensure prompt and equitable disposition of customer complaints or problems; this may require communication with corporate headquarters.
• Serves as backup for other sales associates as necessary The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Salary Range : $67,500 - $100,500

Relocation Package Available : No

EEO Information

Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.