Account Manager Meat & Prepared Foods - Brazil

Interested in a career that matters?

We work to help feed the world more sustainably by improving food quality, safety, and efficiency. Our Meat & Prepared Foods team partners closely with customers across Latam, combining deep industry knowledge with a consultative selling approach. You will join a collaborative and supportive team that works across region to develop solutions that enhance product performance while supporting sustainability goals.
 

The Role & Your Impact:

• Account Management: Manage active customers in Meat & Prepared Foods industries, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and retention;
• Relationship Building: Establish and develop strong relationships with key decision-makers at major customers and prospects.
• Sales Coordination: Lead and coordinate sales projects and opportunities in collaboration with Technical and Marketing teams. Negotiating contracts and commercial agreements using in depth product, pricing, industry, and competitive knowledge
• Innovation Leadership: Act as the customer focal point for new solutions and innovation projects, driving value creation.
• Strategic Alignment: Implement industry strategies for the region.
• Market Development: Identify new prospects and opportunities in Brazil, ensuring maximum and efficient market coverage.
• Growth Delivery: Contribute to the growth and penetration of biosolutions, meeting annual sales targets
• Financial Accountability: Analyze financial results against targets, develop action plans, sales estimates and deliver on overall annual sales budget
• The role is a mix between operational, tactical and strategic and is for Brazilian market (local)

What You'll Need to be Successful:

• Food related careers (Engineer, bachelor degree, etc)
• Intermediate Spanish and English (well understanding mandatory)
• Experience with meat process industry and negotiation B2B
• Salesforce experience is valued 
• Hands on experience or in depth knowledge of meat or food plant operations
• Experience with fermented salami, pepperoni, snack sticks, cured meat, cooked meat products or related manufacturing processes
• Familiarity with food manufacturing equipment and production environments
• Natural curiosity and willingness to explore alternative solutions to achieve customer and business goals
• Excellent communication, presentation, writing and interpersonal skills.
• Friendly and collaborative person who should be integrated into a group of several years working together.
• Open minded to afford a challenging market with creative solutions.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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