Bilingual Sales Account Manager

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Bilingual Sales Account Manager will develop customer sales strategies and build relationships based on the company's values, managing a customer base that maximizes product revenue, and improves pricing gaps for Cargill Protein Sales team based in Manteca CA. In this role, you will help identify and contact prospective customers and build relationships and contribute to the assessment of customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services and solutions that maximize product revenue and improves profitability.

Key Accountabilities

• Align with customer partners to sell products, quoting and negotiating product pricing within pricing function guidelines.
• Develop customer sales strategies to meet customer goals and objectives.
• Process customer orders and manage overall order fill rate and on time delivery service.
• Gather and communicate channel, market, customer or competitive information and intelligence and interact with team on strategy and pricing functions.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Proven negotiation and selling skills and experience
• Proficiency with MS Tools (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc)
• Minimum of 2 years of sales, marketing, customer service, account management and/or trading
• Bilingual (English-Spanish)
• Valid drivers license in good standing

• Sales and buying experience within the protein industry (Beef, Pork, or Poultry)
• Experience building and maintaining customer relationships
• Experience with SAP
• Experience in order entry systems

• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
• This position is located in Manteca, California
• Local day travel up to 40% of the time is required.
• The expected salary for this position is $70,000 - $90,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.
• At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).