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Job Description
Job Description
Senior Director of Sales, Strategic Accounts - Specialty Ingredients NA
Remote
This is an exempt position.
Position Summary
The Senior Director of Sales will lead the North American Strategic Accounts Sales team for ADM's industry leading specialty ingredients business. This leader will empower their team to drive revenue growth with key customers. This role requires hands-on execution along with an extensive understanding of food manufacturing, market trends, and customer needs. The specialty ingredients business is helping to fuel the long term success of ADM's Nutrition segment.
Job Responsibilities
Leadership
Implement the North American go to market strategy aligned with the Specialty Ingredients business priorities
Create innovation opportunities in prioritized food segments
Provide insights and feedback on our sales planning process - given customer and channel market dynamics
Revenue Growth
Train and develop our sales team by deploying value-based selling of specialty ingredients and solutions
Activate commercial, CD&D (creation, design, and development), Marketing, Regulatory, R&D, and Manufacturing teams to support our strategic and growth customers as they launch new products
Gain customer specific insights on potential new products that enables our innovation process team
Customer Engagement and Team Leadership
Build and sustain deep relationship with our strategic customers
Lead, coach, and support a high-performing sales team
Establish clear performance expectations and hold the team accountable on revenue growth, pipeline value, win rate, and customer engagement metrics
Foster a culture of success, collaboration, customer focus, and continuous improvement
Required Skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a high-performing sales organization
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and influence internally and externally
- Expertise in value-based selling along with pipeline management in Salesforce
- Impactful negotiator
- Strong decision making capabilities with a focus on delivering measurably impactful outcomes
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business or related field required; MBA preferred
Required Experience
- 10 years of sales or commercial leadership in food ingredients or related sectors
- Proven track record of driving revenue growth and leading geographically dispersed sales teams
- Experience selling into food & beverage manufacturers (B2B focus)
- Strong understanding of ingredient applications and formulation-driven sales
Additional information
- This position is remote and requires up to 50% travel
Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
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