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Sales Associate

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Job ID 306528 Date posted 04/03/2025 Location : New Jersey Category  SALES Job Status  Salaried Full Time

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 Sales Associate, will provide basic knowledge to assist and develop customer sales strategies and build relationships based on the company's values. In this role, you will help identify prospective customers and build relationships and develop the ability to assess customer needs to suggest appropriate products, services and solutions that maximize product revenue and improve profitability for the Protein sales team in Logan, NJ.

Key Accountabilities

  • Build customer partner relationships to sell products, provide quotes and product pricing within pricing function guidelines.
  • Assist in the development of customer sales strategies to meet customer goals and objectives.
  • Help 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 collaborate with the team on strategy and pricing functions.
  • Partner with the team to manage contracts and risk with pricing and trade promotions teams to coordinate and resolve claims and disputes.
  • Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Drivers license in good standing

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bilingual in English and Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese
  • Food industry experience in Beef, Poultry, and/or Pork
  • Experience with SAP 
  • Proven experience selling products in a business-to-business environment

Position Information

•    Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
•    Minimum travel is required to cover the area of responsibility.
•    This is a hybrid position located in Logan, New Jersey

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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Protect yourself against recruitment fraud. We are aware that unauthorized individuals may have posed as Cargill recruiters, made contact about job opportunities, and extended job offers via text message, instant message or chat rooms. To ensure a job posting is legitimate, it must be listed on the Cargill.com/Careers website. Learn how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud.

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