Purina Feed Sales Representative

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Statesville, NC
Mid level
Retail
The Role
The Purina Feed Sales Representative role involves selling dairy and dairy beef feed products, evaluating feeding programs, and enhancing market share through relationship building and consultation with dairy farmers. Responsibilities include making sales calls, organizing events, and providing nutritional recommendations.
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Purina Feed Sales Representative

We're hiring a Purina Feed Sales Representative to focus primarily on dairy & dairy beef feed sales with our dealer partner in the Statesville, NC area. This role focuses on selling feed and all related products that will optimize the dealer’s market share and savings, improve the dealer’s efficiency, and help to achieve the dealers' mission and goals.

 

This is a remote (virtual) field-based sales position that must be located within the geographic territory of Statesville, NC

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Calling on dairy & dairy beef farms to evaluate existing feeding programs, and to recommend and assist them with their nutritional programs.
  • Selling/consulting at the farm gate (up to 25 farm calls per week) with the end goal of selling Purina products and programs and growing sales and market share. This includes developing new prospects and making sales cold calls.
  • Organizing and conducting effective meetings/events to enhance Purina's brand image, sell product and build store traffic with local dealer.

 

Experience/Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Animal Science or related field strongly desired.
  • Candidates with a pending bachelor’s degree or candidates who possess proven sales and industry experience may be considered.
  • Previous Sales experience highly desired
  • Basic command of making nutritional and feeding recommendations to dairy animal owners in the market.
  • Candidate should have an understanding of dairy cattle husbandry, current management practices, and nutritional guidelines, general market, and industry knowledge. Work/life experience in management and care of dairy animals
  • Competent in providing accurate feeding and management recommendations
  • Strong computer skills, specifically MS Office, plus the ability to be trained on ration balancing software (HerdSmart), Salesforce etc.
  • Strong background and previous professional experience with Dairy animals.

 

 Competencies & Other Skills:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication along with strong organization and time management skills.
  • High internal drive, a natural ability for relationship building, and leadership in a team environment.
  • Ability and drive to make multiple daily sales calls to customers and prospects operations.
  • On farm interaction, in all-weather types at producer facilities for a walk through, and animal evaluations.
  • Ability to network in the industry to put producers together to earn additional business and relationships
  • Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds.
  • Solid public speaking skills

 

Percentage of travel:

  • 10% overnight travel, in addition to daily travel in the assigned geography.

 

This is a sales role that is compensated with a target mix of base salary plus commission.

Base Salary: $50,000 - $60,000

Bonus Target: $10,000

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.


Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

Neither Land O’Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.

The Company
HQ: Arden Hills, Minnesota
6,501 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1921

What We Do

Land O’Lakes, Inc. is a 100-year-old farmer- and retailer-owned cooperative originally formed with the purpose of working together to create new market opportunities. Fast forward to today and we’ve built on that uniting spirit, developing a comprehensive and leading view of agriculture while maintaining an unwavering commitment to delivering strong annual performance and long-term, shared success with our member-owners.

Land O’Lakes believes farmers are the entrepreneurs who truly change the world for the better. By working together with our member-owners, we can continue to strengthen our system, champion farming’s true potential and place our farmer- and retail-owners at the heart of creating a better world for all.

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