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** Senior Merchandiser, Forage Sales (El Centro | Calexico | Imperial Valley, CA)**
**Job Category****:** Sales **Requisition Number****:** SENIO006843 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
*For a century, Wilbur-Ellis has experienced success and growth in marketing and distributing animal feed ingredients.* *Join us and grow your career with Wilbur-Ellis a strong and profitable industry leader offering competitive compensation, tremendous growth & development opportunities, and a people-first work environment. Come grow with us!*
**General Purpose and Scope of Position:**
The Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition Division is seeking a driven professional to create, develop, and execute sales plans for our El Centro facility. The successful candidate will sell forage products to existing customers in Asia and provide excellent service to our existing business partners. This individual will be responsible for all marketing efforts into the prescribed markets and will be accountable for ensuring a quality product is delivered in a timely manner to customers in those countries. The ideal candidate has a love of Agriculture and outstanding procurement, sales, and customer service skills.
**Key Skills and Abilities include:**
* A degree in Agriculture and/or equivalent experience in forage or agricultural operations
* Background in Agriculture good knowledge of farming operations, five-plus years of experience working with producers or farmers in a business relationship capacity
* Experience selling agricultural products or commodities
* Travel availability: for overnight business travel, to include occasional travel by air and possibly international travel
**Key Personal Attributes Include:**
* Self-disciplined & motivated; strong negotiation & relationship-building skills
* An outgoing, positive approach to business, a can do attitude with a high level of integrity
* Strong will to succeed a creative thinker who can build a business and can make cold calls, and deal with rejection
**Specific Responsibilities and Key Deliverables Include:**
* Cultivate relationships with existing and new customers.
* Actively promote and assist in marketing forage products for export sales to the Asian Dairy market.
* Develop and Market forage products to the domestic North American Dairy, Beef, and Equine Markets
* An integral member of the quality control team in charge of continuous monitoring/inspecting product quality throughout the year.
* Develop increased business for both US and Canadian forage products in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam using direct institutional customers such as CO-Ops and large direct distributors.
* Develop long-term stable business for the mill commodities to Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
* Generate profitable forage sales and identify key areas of growth.
**Compensation and Benefits:**
* Competitive annual salary (to be determined based on experience and other factors)
* Benefits package (medical, dental, vision, 401k, Employee Assistance Program, vacation, sick time, life insurance, + more); pension plan, 401k match up to 3%
* Drug-Free Workplace
***If you are currently a Wilbur-Ellis employee, please notify your Manager prior to applying for this position. Thank you!***
**Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, LLC** is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and is a marketer and distributor of value-added feed ingredients in North America and Asia-Pacific. Wilbur Ellis provides feed solutions to our customers and suppliers in the Livestock, Pet Food, and Aquaculture Industries. Providing a complete supply chain, including logistics, warehousing, and customer service, in addition to expertise in import/export and regulatory, sets Wilbur-Ellis apart from our competitors. We understand the importance of providing on-time delivery of specified products and honoring our commitments to suppliers and customers.
**COMPANY CULTURE**
***Wilbur-Ellis is a company you can be proud to call your employer***
Wilbur-Ellis markets and distributes agricultural products, animal feed, and specialty chemicals, and food ingredients. A privately held and consistently profitable company, we employ more than 4,000 people throughout North America and Asia-Pacific.
***Wilbur-Ellis is for and about people***
Wilbur-Ellis has enjoyed 100 years of success and growth, all thanks to our people. Our employees are both leaders and team players who thrive on creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and a dedication to quality work, our customers, and each other.
***Wilbur-Ellis invests in the industrys best workforce***
Wilbur-Ellis invests heavily in our employees by offering skill development and training, competitive compensation and benefits, and a tradition of promoting from within for a broad range of career opportunities. And we foster a supportive, people-first work environment.
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