Technical Sales Manager - Food Ingredients
Technical Sales Manager - Food Ingredients
Posted 6 days ago
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
- Business Management
- Drive market share growth within the food industry by executing targeted sales strategies and penetrating key accounts
- Build and expand strategic relationships with customers and distributors across procurement, marketing, R&D, technical, and other decision-makers
- Aggressively identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities within existing and prospective accounts
- Consistently meet or exceed sales, margin, and profitability objectives
- Develop deep customer, market, and competitive insight and effectively share intelligence internally to support account growth and long-term business strategy
- Ensure all customer interactions with CFS teams are professional, value-driven, and aligned with long-term partnership goals
- Technical Support
- Leverage strong product and application knowledge to support customer needs and enable solution-based selling
- Collaborate closely with global, technical, and application teams to maximize customer value
- Contribute to product ideation and portfolio expansion by identifying unmet customer needs and emerging market opportunities
- Partner with Technical/Application teams to align customer testing programs and capabilities with commercial objectives
- CommunicationPrepare timely, concise, and actionable call reports and sales documentation
- Clearly communicate customer needs, market dynamics, and competitive insights to internal stakeholders to support effective planning and execution
- Deliver information to customers, distributors, and internal teams in a clear, targeted, and impactful manner
- FinancialProvide accurate sales forecasting and actively participate in annual budgeting and planning
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline, food science, business, or a related field required5–7 years of field sales experience within the food ingredients industry or a closely related technical B2B market
- Demonstrated track record of proactive sales growth, account penetration, and/or development of new customer relationships
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with technical, R&D, and global teams preferred
- Ability to work from a home-based office environment
- Ability to travel as required to customer sites, distributor locations, trade shows and internal meetings while maintaining an insurable driving record
- Ability to sit, stand, and work at a computer for extended periods
- Ability to lift and carry materials such as samples, product literature, or presentation equipment (up to 25 lbs)
- CFS North America Provides YouMedical, Dental & Vision Plans 401K with up to a 4% employer match
- Competitive salary
- Annual uncapped bonus potential
- Car allowance
- Professional development
- Career advancement opportunities
- Flexible Paid Time Off & 10 Paid holidays
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, AD&D coverage
- Welcoming and supportive culture
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