Associate Manager Sales - Central PA Philly Market

Tyson Foods is seeking an Associate Manager Sales to support its Foodservice Sales team across the Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware territory. The role focuses on cultivating distributor and operator relationships, growing business, managing strategic initiatives, supporting customers, and achieving sales, mix, and volume targets.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and/or cultivate professional relationships with identifying and targeting incremental accounts, assigned accounts within the market/geography to achieve business objectives
• Gather, create, and maintain key insight for all assigned accounts including key contacts, correspondence, size of business, product/category risks & opportunities; competitive set; calendar/ timing and potential hurdles. Maintain and track progress using the CRM tool all applicable parties are aware
• Execute and manage all strategic initiatives
• Collaborate with Sales Development Business Units and Trade teams as needed to deliver and/or exceed sales plans by managing marketing programs. expense management and deduction resolution (as appropriate)
• Provide customer sales support for market events, meetings, presentations, product samplings and local trade shows
• Must be able to deliver against assigned volume goals and execute price actions within the marketplace. Manage spend and manage the mix of product sold
• Manage T&E Budget
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Candidate must reside in Central-Eastern PA
• Minimum 2-5 years outside sales experience in Food Service, Manufacturing, or Distributor Sales
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strategic thinking, planning, negotiation skills, understanding of motivational leadership skills, and conflict resolution skills; Event planning execution
• Experience with Microsoft Office products
• 20-30%