Technical Sales Manager Swine
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
As a Technical Sales Manager, you will manage key accounts within the pig production sector, including feed mills and pig producers. Your focus will be on building trusted partnerships, delivering nutritional expertise, and driving business growth through applying innovative solutions.
The UK business is a leading provider of animal nutrition solutions, specialised in the development and production of, premixes, concentrates, additives, and specialties, such as piglet feeds and calf milk replacers. We focus on delivering core nutritional solutions to our clients to ensure we deliver optimum growth and have healthy animals produced sustainably for the future.
What We Offer
- A comprehensive portfolio of cost-effective, high-quality feed products
- Science-backed additives to enhance animal health and productivity
- On-farm expertise and tailored nutritional solutions
- Advanced technologies and nutrient analysis supported by global R&D
- A values-driven culture focused on long-term farmer success
Key Accountabilities
- Trusted Advisor Relationships: Build long-term, consultative partnerships with key customers by understanding their unique challenges and goals.
- Nutritional Expertise & Application: Apply advanced knowledge of swine nutrition across all life stages—particularly sow and piglet development—to recommend effective feeding strategies. Translate complex nutritional science into practical, on-farm solutions that improve animal health, growth, and efficiency.
- Customer Insight & Business Understanding: Develop a comprehensive understanding of each customer’s business model, economic drivers, and strategic objectives.
- Key Account Planning & Forecasting: Create and maintain detailed account plans that outline growth opportunities, product positioning, and service strategies; regularly report on progress, market trends.
- Sales Growth & Performance: Drive business growth by achieving volume, market share, and margin targets.
- Continuous Learning & Technical Development: Engage in ongoing professional development through Cargill’s Industry Leading Practitioner framework. Stay ahead of industry advancements and continuously refine your technical and advisory skills.
- Collaborative Technical Support: Work closely with local and regional teams of nutritionists, production experts, and technical advisors to deliver comprehensive support to customers.
- Market Relevance & Innovation: Stay informed about evolving customer needs, competitor activity, and market dynamics.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with technical, marketing, supply chain, and R&D teams to deliver integrated solutions that meet customer expectations.
- Strategic Customer Engagement: Navigate the complexity of diverse customer types—from independent pig producers to large-scale feed mills—by tailoring approaches that align with their unique goals and challenges.
- Leveraging Global Capabilities Locally: Tap into Cargill’s global network of expertise, tools, and technologies to bring world-class solutions to the UK market.
- Team Contribution & Knowledge Sharing: Actively contribute to team goals by sharing insights, supporting peers, and participating in joint initiatives. Provide input into training programs, marketing materials, and technical documentation to strengthen the overall value proposition.
- Market Intelligence & Influence: Stay attuned to industry developments, regulatory changes, and emerging trends. Use this knowledge to influence internal strategy and ensure our offerings remain competitive and relevant.
- Customer-Centric Innovation: Champion a customer-first mindset by identifying unmet needs and proposing new solutions or service models. Collaborate with product managers and technical teams to co-create value-added offerings.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Proven relevant work experience and demonstrated success in Technical Sales/ Customer Nutritionist positions in the UK Swine Industry.
- Strong experience of technically supporting a range of customers at different levels and able to articulate new products, concepts and knowledge.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in fluent English
- Commercial acumen to grow existing accounts and support on the development of new accounts.
- Able to work cross functionally across a range of internal stakeholders.
- Willing to extensive travel to customer sites across the UK as required.
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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