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SUMMARY: The Sales Manager is responsible for daily sales related items associated with plants in George’s Chicken Divisions. These items include but are not limited to weekly sales of excess product, frozen inventory management, customer freight optimization and “other” product sales. The Sales Manager will work on a day to day basis to ensure sales, production planning, operations, and logistics are properly aligned at the plant level to execute and ensure optimal profits.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Develop new and foster current relationships with internal and external customers as it relates to existing weekly business and pricing or the opportunity for new customers/business.
- Execute weekly pricing management to ensure products are properly billed based on formulas and agreed upon freight.
- Identify and correct freight opportunities as they pertain to light loads or movement of customers shipping days to ensure freight rate optimization and improvement of on-time delivery.
- Collaborate with Sales team to identify products in need of an upgrade, this could relate to an upgrade on pricing or in product mix.
- Collaborate with Production/Operations teams to inform them on sales related issues at the plant level as well as being the source for sales related questions on product mix, pricing or products sold.
- Identify products being sent to cold storage that would have a better value proposition being sold fresh.
- Understand and utilize Agristats and EMI as a tool for benchmarking improvements in pricing and mix.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position will have supervisory responsibility.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Poultry Science or related field AND 3+ years of experience in sales or production planning environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
George’s is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search, apply or interview for a career opportunity with the Company, please send an email to [email protected] or call 479-927-7000 to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information to assist you
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disabled/Veterans
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Poultry Science, or related field and 3+ years of experience in sales or production planning environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding and use of Agristats and EMI for pricing and mix benchmarking
What We Do
Over 100 years and through four generations of family values, George’s Inc. has grown to feed a world of possibilities for our people and communities—and consistently integrated, innovated, and acquired new capabilities to meet evolving customer and consumer needs in chicken. Our story began in the late 1920s, in Brush Creek, Arkansas, when C.L. George established a general store to serve his community while also raising broiler chickens and began hauling them to larger markets throughout the Midwest. As the business evolved, C.L. moved it to Springdale, Arkansas, where he formed Farmer’s Produce Company, along with his two sons, Luther and Gene. With time, experience, and further integration, the company was renamed for the family who founded it: George’s Inc. Today, while George’s roots run deep in Springdale, its family has expanded to include more than 7,000 team members and 350 farmers throughout Arkansas, Missouri, and Virginia. Still family-owned, George’s is large enough to accommodate a variety of chicken needs yet approaches its business from an uncompromising family approach—offering the best of both worlds to its customers, consumers, partners, and communities. Whether fresh, frozen, value-added, or for retail or foodservice markets, George’s is ready and able to deliver its premium chicken products locally, regionally, and nationally.
