06/20/2022
Job description
The Origination Team Leader
Industry: Food & Beverage
Sales and Marketing
Location: Northern Illinois or Eastern Iowa areas.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Origination Team Leader will provide essential leadership and development capabilities to high performing territory teams which exemplify the skills needed to enable customer profitability. In this role, you will develop sales and commodity origination plans linked to the overall strategy of the business to drive results and ensure that sales and marketing processes and tools are implemented consistently and continuously improved.
Key Accountabilities
Partner on the development of regional and territory level sales and origination strategies to achieve business level operating plans for the fiscal year, incorporating best practices to drive performance across the entire national sales and origination team.
Maintain a view of the talent needs within the territory and work jointly with senior leaders in the business on a talent strategy and a succession plan that aligns with the overall talent strategy of the business.
Understand distinct customer segments and needs, value propositions designed for each segment and drive effective and consistent utilization of sales processes that maximizes the utility of our customer segmentation to appropriately identify needs and deliver value.
Drive collaboration across other functions, notably merchandising, customer service and operations, to deliver on our strategy.
Set team and individual goals and develop the capabilities needed to deliver strategy linked to the utilization of customer segmentation information.
Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience
Travel up to 50%
Preferred Qualifications
Two years of supervisory experience
Leadership and coaching experience
Proven sales team leadership
Grain industry experience.