Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
The Key Account Executive will focus on medium to long term planning and face to face selling. In this role, you will help sell a variety of complex company products, services and solutions across multiple lines of business for an assigned group of existing clients, also develop new clients/ opportunities and participate in building sales plans and diversification strategies to protect and grow the relationship with a defined group of customers.
Key Accountabilities
- Help identify and lead interactions with assigned group of customers to resolve sales opportunities.
- Recognize and pursue new market segments and opportunities for business development, calculating return and investment. Help identify, develop and typically close new sales.
- Monitor market development activities to align with company business goals, competitor activity and industry trends.
- Lead & participate in resolving problems and ensuring customers receive high quality service.
- With minimal mentorship, develop client acquisition, retention and growth plans and strategies for developing profitable business with assigned accounts.
- Execute sales plans with strategies to protect, grow and diversify relationships with targeted customers.
- Review and report on customer retention, business opportunities and market trends.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Potential travel in the Middle East.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired Candidate Profile
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Minimum of four years of related work experience, especially with poultry.
Other minimum qualifications may apply.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS br> Five to ten years experience in combined sales, marketing and business development.
KEY BEHAVIORS br> Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. br> Maneuver comfortably through complex policy-, process- and people-related organizational dynamics. br> Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. br> Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments. br> Build partnerships and collaborate with others to meet shared objectives. Internal stakeholder management and work with the broader team to meet business targets. br> Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems. br> Effectively working within a global, matrixed company. br> Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
br>SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED br> Experience helping to create and define the sales vision and long-term goals for complex strategic customer account(s). br> Experience participating in building, developing and maintaining strategic and long-term relationships with complex br>strategic accounts in a global, matrixed company.