Junior Account Manager

Cargill • Logan, New Jersey, United States • 3d ago

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Junior Account Manager will develop customer sales strategies and build relationships based on the company's values. In this role, you will help identify and contact prospective customers and build relationships and contribute to the assessment of customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services and solutions that maximize product revenue and improves profitability.

Key Accountabilities

Align with customer partners to sell products, quoting and negotiating product pricing within pricing function guidelines.
Develop customer sales strategies to meet customer goals and objectives.
Process customer orders and manage overall order fill rate and on time delivery service.
Gather and communicate channel, market, customer or competitive information and intelligence and interact with team on strategy and pricing functions.
Manage contracts and risk with pricing and trade promotions teams then resolve and coordinate the investigation of claims and disputes.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned