What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Manager - Industrial Sales position at Chicago Meat Authority?
CMA is looking for an individual who thrives on building quick, meaningful connections in a poised, confident, and energetic way. This role offers an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys variety and thrives on tackling diverse sales activities, managing multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment. Success in this position requires a motivating and collaborative approach to working with others across the organization to achieve shared goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Selling trimmings to further processors
- Selling whole muscle meat as an ingredient to further processors
- Selling commodity fresh and frozen meat to exporters
- Identify and create new business opportunities
- Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with clients
What We Want From You
- Ability to call cold and prospect new business
- Experience in commodity-based selling
- Strong networking skills, including a passion for meeting people and for relationship building that deliver strategic results
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task, organizing own workload to maintain high quality and output while achieving set deadlines and targets
- Perform as an aggressive self-starter with high energy level and strong work ethic
- Leads with integrity, is reliable, trustworthy, mature and self-confident
- Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Superior interpersonal and communication skills
- Meat sales experience
- Bachelor’s degree or successful sales prospecting, sales development and account management experience
- Proficient with PCs and office software
What We Value
- Proven track record of selling fresh meat to institutional or industrial buyers
- Ability to adapt and learn quickly in an evolving food industry environment
- Positive attitude and passion for exceeding expectations, both personally and professionally
- Commitment to excellent customer service and cultivating long-term partnerships with clients
- Ability to work independently while also being a supportive, collaborative team player
We Are Winning When
We follow and are guided by our mission and we demonstrate our values every day!
"To be the preferred supplier of our customers, the preferred customer of our strategic suppliers, and a model employer in our industry."
Chicago Meat Authority, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.