Poultry - Technical Sales Lead
At a glance
Senior Solutions & Sales Engineering role at Cargill. Namakkal.
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What you'll do
- Help sales colleagues build customer partnerships that protect current accounts and bring in new business
- Run product demonstrations and trials, checking that each follows the required specifications
- Visit customers to advise on nutrition, including feed design and disease diagnosis
- Gather customer needs and recommend suitable products or services across your assigned territory
- Train the commercial team and help test new products with marketing and technology colleagues
What you bring
- You hold an M.V.Sc in Animal Nutrition
- You have at least five years of relevant experience, including poultry nutrition
- You have spent at least five years formulating feed for broilers and breeders, with attention to performance and cost
- You can speak the local language fluently
Who this fits
This senior technical sales role suits someone who can turn poultry nutrition expertise into practical customer guidance and support for commercial colleagues. The position is based in Namakkal and supports Tamil Nadu; you should be prepared to travel at least fifteen days each month.
From the employer
Job Purpose and Impact
The Poultry - Technical Sales Lead based at Namakkal will be aligned to Cargill's Animal Nutrition and Health business in India supporting Tamil Nadu. In this role you will assist commercial team members with technical solutions and support interactions with clients and prospective customers, to help them understand how the company can provide solutions for them and improve profitability.
Key Accountabilities
• Assist the commercial team members to establish and cultivate effective partnerships with customers to maintain existing business and gain new ones.
• Manage product demonstrations and trials of products and ensured work according to required specifications.
• Deploy relevant Cargill digital services and tools and help the farmers to realize the benefit and assist commercial/Strategic Marketing and Technology team to capture value from the service.
• Assist the customers on nutritional aspect that includes diet design and disease diagnosis during the customer visits.
• Develop strong customer relationships at geographical key accounts in the assigned territory.
• Identify and gather information on customer requirement and recommend appropriate service and product.
• Support cross functional teams including strategic marketing technology to develop and proof new products.
• Technical training to the commercial team.
• Participate with sales and marketing leaders on customer segmentation, satisfaction and account planning.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
• Qualified M.V.Sc (Animal Nutrition)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum requirement of 5 years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Years of experience: 5 - 10 years.
• Fluent in speaking the local language.
• Open to travelling atleast 15 days every month.
• At least 5 years of experience in poultry nutrition.
• At least 5 years of experience in feed formulation for broilers and broiler breeders, focusing on performance optimization and cost efficiency.
• Strong experience in providing technical support on broiler and breeder nutrition, including nutrient optimization and performance monitoring.
• Ability to develop customer relationships and trust through technical knowledge and expertise.
Disclaimer
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