Dairy Feed - Sales Officer

Role & responsibilities

The Dairy Feed Sales Officer will be aligned to Cargill's Animal Nutrition Health business in India. You will support the team with face to face and remote selling to new and existing customers, appointing new distributors, selling directly or indirectly through various sales channels for your assigned territory. In this role, you will help assess customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services, and solutions to the farmers.

Key Accountabilities:

• Help develop, advice and deliver sales bids, proposals, presentations and participate in conducting product demonstrations.
• Help identify and contact prospective customers, mainly farmers.
• Build customer relationships that help generate future sales and repeat business.
• Apply broad theoretical job knowledge to sell directly to customers.
• Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred candidate profile

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in any discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years of related work experience.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong exposure in sales advisor role, general trade and distribution sales in the agriculture sector (pesticides, fertilizers, agriculture chemicals).
• Strong sales exposure in the Dairy / Cattle Feed Sales background.
• Should have very strong connects with farmers.
• Must be fluent in speaking Tamil language
• Proven experience in increasing sales and profitability in the assigned territory.
• Ability to manage multiple dealers and SKU's.

Perks and benefits

• The Company will reimburse employees for all business travel related expenses which is necessary, reasonable, and actually incurred when traveling on authorized company business.
• TA & DA as per Business Travel Policy.
• Quarterly sales incentives depending on target achievement.

Job Location - Sangli, Sangamner, Khatav and other nearby locations