The Active / Adult / Performance Nutrition Sales Manager is responsible for building a pipeline of sustainable customers and profitable growth in North America. To achieve this, the incumbent shall partner with colleagues in a variety of functions such as technical sales support, marketing, product management, and R&D to execute sales strategies and new value propositions while identifying and delivering key customer needs for our ingredients and services.
What We Ask
Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelors of Chemistry, Nutrition Science or a Registered Dietitian, sales, marketing
- 3 to 5 years of dietary supplement technical sales
- 3 to 5 years of dietary supplement bench experience in applications or R&D
- Must possess a progressive track record in building territory with Brand owners, private label, and 3rd party manufacturing
What We Offer
Why FrieslandCampina
Owned by a co-op of dairy farmers, we believe in working together. We collaborate with passion and focus to ensure every solution for our customers is spot on. We are commercially obsessed.
Our success comes from the right ingredients crafted by our employees who believe that the Inside Matters.
We are inspired and believe in:
- the possibilities dairy ingredients can impact our lives for the good
- setting new standards in Early Life Nutrition
- creating amazing tastes and textures for Food & Beverage
- using dairy nutrients to improve health and sustain life
FrieslandCampina is on a mission to provide products that are nourishing, pure, tasty, and safe. Does the inside matter to you? Learn more about our vision and join a winning team!
The Sales Manager will identify new business opportunities with existing and new accounts, and grow the business by promoting our functional ingredient portfolio (consisting of caseinates, milk, and whey proteins) and our concept solutions for a good gut feeling, for good nights, and natural immune support in the dietary supplement market.
To be successful, the incumbent must demonstrate the ability to serve the customer as a total solutions provider and sell new ideas using value-based selling techniques; execute a strategic volume plan and go to market strategy; excel at establishing and nurturing internal partnerships with Technical Sales Services, Marketing, R&D and Product Management along; build quick rapport and maintain lasting relationships with external customers; enjoy networking through LinkedIn and F2F events; possess knowledge of dairy/whey proteins; ability work under pressure with ambiguity and competing deadlines; solving Customer issues/rejections; possess excellent verbal, written and presentation skills in English; able to travel up to 70%; comply with all Safety and Compass policies; and be ambitious, highly energetic, engaged and curious to learn, grow and win in the market.
Team Details
At FrieslandCampina Ingredients we take good and transform it into great! We believe that we need to embrace the challenges we are faced with so we work tirelessly to increase nutritional benefits, new sensory experiences, and innovative application methods to bring more goodness to our products and the customers we serve. The markets and our customers are highly dynamic and to make a difference we are commercially obsessed with understanding the needs of our customers and the consumers. We are purpose-driven and every year we raise the bar in bringing high-quality, value add ingredients and solutions to our customers. Our ambition is to nourish the world, be specialists in proteins and gut health, not just milk proteins.