
Senior Sales Manager
- Loire
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Supports Regional Commercial Director in the development of the strategic customer initiatives to deliver profit targets and lifetime customer value.
- Develops and maintains relationships with new and existing customers and business partners to deliver a profitable business model.
- Grow and develop and create a high performing team of Sales Representatives. Motivate and lead the team to increase revenue, profitability and market share.
- Prepares sales forecasts and revenues for area of responsibility.
- Negotiates, sustains and renews customer contracts.
- Prepare and manage the annual budget for area of responsibility, monitor and adjust sales operations as appropriate to meet forecasts.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with key industry influencers and customers and communicating the value proposition.
- Works with all customer interfaces within accounts to influence, develop and implement improved ways of realizing the full genetic performance potential in customer farms.
- Develops strong relationships with enabling functions; Marketing; Supply Chain; Technical Services, Genetic Services, Health Assurance HR and Finance to ensure success of the region and the delivery of the strategic goals.
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree; Agricultural or Animal Sciences preferred.
- Extensive sales experience in the industry; modern pork production experience desired.
- Strong negotiation skills and constructing contracts that mitigate risk and result in “win-win” relationships with customers.
- Understanding of working in a Matrix Management organization an advantage
- Innovative, highly self-motivated with the ability to respond to changing demands are key requirements for success in this role.
- Excellent IT skills - Microsoft office proficient including excel and PowerPoint.
- Domestic and some international travel will be a key part of this role.
- Strong verbal and written English skills essential.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills and the ability to coach and mentor.
- Understands own leadership style and varies it to gain hearts and minds. Encourages and respects different styles.
- Collaborate as One Team
- Create Value for Customers
- Innovate with Purpose
- Never stop improving
- Monitor and identify goals for the reduction of our GHG emissions from our own operations.
- Drive porcine and bovine genetic improvements which support productivity gains and improve feed efficiency, enabling a reduction in the production of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of milk or meat produced
- Identify facility and other opportunities for reductions in GHG emissions, consistent with our goals
- Partner and advocate for policies that advance positive climate goals and identified United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Developing pigs through gene editing that are resistant to PRRSv (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus), a deadly disease that causes animal death and suffering as well as the loss of billions of dollars in farm production worldwide.*