Tyson Foods

Manager Customer Development, Refrigerated - Target (Minneapolis, MN)

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Springdale, AR

Job Description

Summary: This position is responsible for selling refrigerated retail products increasing market share and maintaining good customer relations with Target. This role is responsible for the HQ call at Target in Minneapolis MN and will require the CDM to maintain relations and increase account penetration at Target. This position will require you to navigate the Refrigerated network of buyers for all aspects to achieve maximum volume potential and profitability while maintaining Tysons standard of providing high quality products with excellent customer service. This position will work in close collaboration with many internal business units in retail marketing, insights, retail execution, revenue management, and others to achieve AOP sales goals and profitability metrics.

Other responsibilities include ensuring the Customer knows Tyson product features, benefits, and value-added qualities establishing a service and response level to the Customer that exceeds the industry standard and handling Customer questions and complaints on a variety of issues and ensuring problems are solved in a timely manner.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor s degree required.

Experience: 5 plus years sales experience; knowledge of retail sales environment preferred.

Computer Skills: Requires basic computer skills.

Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Special Skills: Project management and or strategic planning experience is required.

Travel: 4-6 trips per year.

Location: Minneapolis, MN preferred

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Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Tyson Foods

Springdale, AR

Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.

It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.

It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.