Senior Territory Representative - Poultry Arkansas

Job Description

The Territory Manager is a key member of the field sales team and plays a critical role in supporting our company's 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 products, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that our company's Animal Health is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus the Science of Healthier Animals.

In addition, the Territory Manager demonstrates an understanding of the resources available across our company's Animal Health.

This role will cover the Arkansas, Missouri & Oklahoma territory. It is required that our sales employees reside in the territory in which they cover. For ease of covering the primary territory area, it would be ideal if this person resides in Arkansas.

• 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, meet with key personnel/decision makers to understand practice 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 products and services.
• Develop territory and specific account plans for all assigned customers. Partners with National Account Managers and Corporate Account Team to maintain strong focus on assigned accounts and to drive sales growth.
• Work collaboratively across all species teams to foster a one our company's approach to enhance knowledge of the entire our company's Animal Health product portfolio.
• Shares with other team members within the region to foster growth and development within the team.
• Analyze sales results monthly and manage expenses within budget guidelines.
• Identifies and selects programs/services available within our company's Animal Health’s available resources to address customer needs and provide education & training opportunities to accounts.
• Works with leadership and Field Technical Services to develop and deliver relevant offerings that address desired customer needs.
• Expand current understanding of our company's Animal Health 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.
• Acts as a mentor for new hires.

This position is an Individual Contributor role.

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum of 5 years relevant Poultry Industry work experience
• Excellent interpersonal/communication and presentation skills
• Motivated and focused on achieving measurable, tangible results, demonstrating proficient ability to utilize data resources including analytic problem-solving tools to resolve customer issues.
• Utilizes the strengths and diversity of other team members to improve own performance and consistently shares important and relevant information with the team.
• Demonstrated understanding of positions’ contribution to the business goals and willingness to adopt changes to current processes and champion innovative technologies to meet customer needs.
• Demonstrated ability to independently understand customers’ evolving needs and expectations and combines with knowledge of customers’ organization and culture to drive long term sustainable results and identify strategic opportunities.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of effective selling techniques and approaches to create a compelling rationale for the value and…