Job Details:
Summary:
As an Associate Customer Development Manager (Assoc CDM), you’ll play a key role in selling retail prepared products and increasing market share by optimizing merchandising plans and executing impactful promotions. Your efforts will help shape our market presence and drive business success. You’ll maintain strong engagement across an assigned customer base and/or geography, which will include travel to Midwest locations for customer meetings and food shows. This role offers opportunities to develop leadership skills, advance within the company, and work closely with a collaborative and supportive team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive sales of retail prepared products to two assigned customers in the Midwest.
- Optimize merchandising plans and execute actions to amplify promotions with customers.
- Maintain regular engagement with customers through travel, meetings, and food shows.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams, including Customer Strategy and Execution, Sales, and Business Units, as well as externally with Brokers on category insights.
- Meet Annual Operating Plan (AOP) sales and profitability targets.
- Manage trade fund budgets and provide weekly and annual sales forecasts.
- Present and secure innovation with customers.
- Provide weekly communication to leadership on customer outcomes.
- Support retail execution of sales plans.
Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
Experience:
- Minimum 3 years of sales experience; CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) sales experience preferred.
Computer Skills:
- Basic computer proficiency required.
Communication Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Special Skills:
- Project management and/or strategic planning experience required.
Travel:
- 6–12+ trips per year to Midwest locations for customer meetings and food shows.
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- At least 3 years of sales experience
- CPG sales experience
- Basic computer proficiency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Project management and/or strategic planning experience
- Ability to travel 6–12 or more times annually to Midwest locations
Tyson Foods Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage start on day one and are complemented by telehealth, wellbeing programs, and added mental‑health support. Vision and basic dental are available at no additional cost, and preventive care is emphasized.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave has been expanded for birth and adoptive parents, signaling stronger family support. Select locations have piloted childcare solutions to better support shift workers.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company matching after a year and an employee stock purchase plan are available to build long‑term financial security. Company‑paid life and disability coverage further bolster the protection package.
Tyson Foods Insights
What We Do
World's largest processor and marketer of protein food products. We think differently and we act boldly. At Tyson Foods, we're not only ready for tomorrow, we’re leading the way. We are a company of people engaged in the production of food, seeking to pursue truth and integrity, and committed to creating value for our shareholders, our customers, our team members, and our communities. We built our name on providing generations of families with wholesome, great-tasting chicken. But today’s Tyson Foods is so much more. As values and behaviors around food have changed, so have we. Today, we’re innovators uniquely positioned to reshape what it means to feed our world. Today, we not only have the fastest growing portfolio of protein-centric brands, we offer greater transparency into everything we do.
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