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Louis Dreyfus Company

Global agribusiness sourcing, processing, distributing commodities

KA Channel Sales

Account Management +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGuangzhou, Guangdong Province, China$25k - $32k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher; majors in animal nutrition, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry or breeding, or marketing are preferred.
  • A solid foundation in animal nutrition, feed science, and farming management, with knowledge of feed and farming industry market dynamics, competition, regulations, and technical trends.
  • Proficiency in sales processes and techniques, customer relationship management, market development, needs discovery, solution selling, and sales negotiation.
  • Ability to use customer relationship management tools to manage customer information, track sales opportunities, and analyze business data.
  • Ability to communicate product and service value propositions and technical details of customized solutions to key accounts, and to coordinate effectively across technical service, research and development, and marketing teams.
  • Market insight and commercial thinking, including analysis of market data, competitor activity, industry trends, and changing customer needs.
  • Project management capability to manage multiple customized solution projects, coordinate schedules and resources, and deliver on time and to quality requirements.
  • At least 8 years of value-selling experience with differentiated products in the feed industry or a related field. Rich key-account customer resources and successful large-project sales cases are preferred.
  • Ability to travel frequently and adapt to different customer environments and regions.

Responsibilities

  • Understand assigned key-account customers' business condition, organizational structure, decision processes, technical and procurement behavior, and key decision makers.
  • Build, develop, and manage complex customer relationships across decision makers, influencers, users, implementers, and other stakeholders, using internal and external resources as needed.
  • Understand customer departments' performance indicators, pain points, and needs, including technical, procurement, quality, operations, and supply-chain needs.
  • Identify customer solution stakeholders and decision makers, build relationships, understand customer needs, and deliver value to achieve or exceed profit and sales goals.
  • Monitor customer relationships, create ongoing value, coordinate with logistics, procurement, sales, and supply-chain professionals, provide needed information, and resolve customer complaints.
  • Coordinate tactically across departments and business units to identify sales opportunities, integrate resources, meet current and future customer needs, and secure long-term customer commitment.
  • Collaborate with marketing, market development, technical service, operations, and leadership to align product and service capabilities and business strategy with complex customer needs.
  • Develop knowledge of customer business strategies and needs, competitors, industry conditions, products, services, customer segments, and sales channels.
  • Assess competitor capabilities against the company's capabilities, identify gaps, and position competitive solutions.
  • Expand sales with internal sales and functional teams, execute strategic partnership objectives, and support customer success.
  • Support sales leaders in meeting sales goals and developing growth strategies for existing and new products; identify customer needs and new sales opportunities.
  • Co-create customized animal nutrition and health solutions with customers and technical service teams; integrate company resources, ensure technical accuracy and feasibility, and present solution value to customers.
  • Manage customized key-account solution projects from customer coordination and internal resource allocation through schedule tracking, implementation, troubleshooting, and successful delivery.
  • Identify key-account business opportunities, use market positioning and sales strategies to grow product sales, meet or exceed sales targets, and develop new key-account customers.
  • Develop sales proposals that optimize customer and business value and address customers' key problems, needs, and requirements.
  • Develop new distributor channels, assess distributor suitability for target customers, negotiate agreements, and establish business relationships.
  • Visit key distributors regularly and advance their cooperation with target customers.
  • Create quarterly and annual distributor sales plans by territory or target customer, assign sales targets, and ensure performance goals are met.
  • Track distributor sales data, analyze market changes, and adjust strategies to meet sales goals.
  • Plan and execute targeted regional marketing activities with distributors to drive sales.
  • Manage distributor relationships with key accounts and other distributors to optimize market coverage.
  • Create distributor training plans to improve sales capability and product knowledge.
  • Coordinate with technical service to resolve product-use problems and participate in technical training and technical exchange activities.
  • Work with research and development teams to relay market and customer feedback, support product improvement and innovation, and contribute market research and needs analysis for new product development.
  • Coordinate with marketing on marketing strategy, brand awareness, product launches, technical seminars, and industry exhibitions.
  • Support high-quality marketing activities and work with marketing professionals and managers on customer transactions and sales activities, including industry events, exhibitions, customer factory visits, research and development workshops, working discussions, and headquarters visits.
  • Collect customer information for marketing and technical teams.
  • Coordinate with the credit department on customer payments and credit matters.
  • Coordinate with customer service and production teams to execute customized customer solutions.
  • Maintain customer and customer-service plan records for review and business development.
  • Develop short- and medium-term solutions with key developers and cross-functional teams, building new or existing product and service offerings to maintain or grow market share and maximize profit.
  • Execute pricing procedures under established market policies, and provide sales management with feedback on pricing competitiveness and execution.
  • Work with legal teams and senior customer and sales leaders to prepare and execute complex contracts, negotiate with complex customers, and close sales.
  • Contribute to cross-functional revenue-generation solutions involving branding, price segmentation, and product configuration, and share ideas with relevant teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • A major in animal nutrition, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry or breeding, or marketing.
  • Rich key-account customer resources and successful large-project sales cases.

About the Company

Louis Dreyfus Company

Global agribusiness sourcing, processing, distributing commodities

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is a global agribusiness player that operates across the entire food value chain. It sources and imports raw agricultural materials like grains, oilseeds, coffee, cotton, and sugar, then processes them into value-added products and distributes them to farmers, food and beverage companies, industrial manufacturers, and other markets worldwide. Its products work by moving from origination to processing and distribution, with a growing emphasis on plant-based proteins to provide nutritious, sustainable alternatives to animal foods. LDC differentiates itself through its large, integrated network that spans sourcing, processing, and global distribution, its focus on sustainability and plant-based innovation, and its commitment to integrity, long-term stability, and partnerships. The company's goal is to meet rising demand for safe, nutritious, and sustainable food while supporting farmers and customers through reliable supply chains and ongoing value creation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.5B
Headquarters
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Founded
1851

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