Purina Technical Sales Specialist

Purina Technical Sales Specialist

In this role you will be responsible for leading the technical and nutritional support in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region.

You will work to grow sales with specific end users and prospects through a consultative approach and education. You will assist in sales with overall technical leadership to the producers, sales teams and co-ops / dealers in the territory.

Also in this position, you will also be responsible for sales territory to support and grow the sales at the assigned co-ops and dealers.

This is a remote (virtual) field-based technical sales support and territory sales role that must be located in the Southern Virginia territory.

Lynchburg, VA would be a ideal location.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Work closely with Nutrition Sales Professionals in providing education and solutions for beef cattle producers.
• Work both individually and through Purina sales professionals, helping dealer nutritionists, customers, and prospects to mutually benefit by providing the right recommendations for multi-species nutrition and management practices.
• Be the lead in beef cattle nutrition and beef cattle education for the sales team and our dealer group.
• Demonstrate strategic and tactical planning skills necessary to provide solutions-based selling of value-add technologies.
• Serve as a key liaison with local beef industry.
• Communicate with the Purina beef cattle technical team and research staff to lead innovative research, product development, and local implementation of new value-added products.
• Maintain a high level of proficiency and competency in beef, equine, and small ruminant nutrition, production management, and selling skills through recommended training.
• Perform other duties and assume other responsibilities as assigned or requested.

Experience-Education-Skills :

• Masters degree in Beef Cattle nutrition or related; candidates with a master’s degree may be considered
• 3 5 years’ industry and / or university experience highly desired
• Solid understanding of animal husbandry, current management practices, and nutritional guidelines.
• Enjoys and prefers working in the field with producers, nutritionists, and feed dealer teams.
• Daily travel within the territory- approximately 1-2 overnights per week
• Enjoys working with people, competing as a team, and providing profitable solutions to customers, local dealers and Purina.
• Self-motivated with excellent time management skills who plans for growth and opportunity.
• Effective communication skills in various settings.
• Computer skills; including ration balancing software, PC Dart, DCand Office applications (Power Point, Excel, Word, etc.).
• Strong Leadership Skills, Customer Focused, Action Oriented

Base salary $80,- $doe. Incentives are driven by individual and team performance

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