Distributor Sales Manager

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Distributor Sales Manager, will sell the company's products, services and solutions through intermediaries such as distributors and resellers. In this role, you will nurture relationships with the channel partners and distributors, implement the company's sales and marketing activities and represent the organization to promote and sell products and services.

Key Accountabilities

• Help maintain and expand relationships with organizations, providing products, services and solutions.
• Help develop and deliver product demonstrations, sales bids and presentations to channel partners and distributors.
• Promote and sell products and services to individuals or other organizations.
• Monitor customer and competitor activity and industry trends.
• Support business growth by disseminating favorable information of the organization and its products and services.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Manage a team of area sales representatives.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Around 10 years of relevant experience in Food industry customer/channel management, preferably in chocolate, dairy, fats & oils, or culinary ingredients.
• Excellent command of Turkish and English languages.
• No travelling restrictions.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the cocoa and/or fats & oils products portfolio.
• Background in food engineering.

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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