Diamond V - Technical Service Specialist - Midwest US (Animal Feed Additives)
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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Diamond V - Technical Service Specialist - Midwest US (Animal Feed Additives) will provide industry expertise to our key internal and external accounts regarding the best nutritional solutions and technology. In this role, you will serve as an industry leading professional enabling the business to enhance its commercial growth potential by leveraging unparalleled technology and groundbreaking solutions to create value added solutions for our key customers and prospects.
This is a home‑office-based role. Candidates must reside in, or be willing to relocate to Midwest US, to one of the following states: Kansas, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan or surrounding area. In addition, candidates must live within close proximity to a major airport to support travel requirements. This position requires up to 75% travel and driving across the assigned territory.
Diamond V’s natural immune support postbiotic feed additives help optimize animal health, animal performance, and preharvest food safety. We provide expert, experienced, technical support to our customers to help keep their animals healthy and grow their businesses. Based on 80 years of research and development, Diamond V continues to explore and innovate in postbiotic and microbial fermentation science and technology.
Key Accountabilities
- Serve as the point of contact for nutrition & health expertise and use this expertise to influence prospective customers.
- Develop and implement a plan with regional commercial team to partner with key accounts to achieve trusted advisor status and drive value added focus to enable delivery on customer promise.
- Provide expertise to assess new business opportunities and identify priorities in the innovation pipeline to optimize nutrition solutions and enable the ability to create optimal offers from a nutritional and commercial perspective.
- Prepare project data and conclusions for internal and key customer presentations to make recommendations and product demonstrations.
- Develop training resources to provide guidance to regional and local commercial and technical teams to improve our value creation and sales effectiveness.
- Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide directions to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree, Doctorate degree, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, related advanced degree, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of six years of related work experience in technical sales, business development or related field
- Experience in the dairy industry, ruminant nutrition or animal nutrition
- Able and willing to travel up to 75%
- Valid driver’s license in good standing
Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual: Spanish and English
- Sales experience in animal nutrition, feed, animal health, additives, supplements
- Experience with technical sales, able to provide technical support to dairies, nutritionist, and veterinarians
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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