Job Description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
SUMMARY: The Sales Manager is responsible for daily sales related items associated with plants in George’s Chicken Divisions. These items include but are not limited to weekly sales of excess product, frozen inventory management, customer freight optimization and “other” product sales. The Sales Manager will work on a day to day basis to ensure sales, production planning, operations, and logistics are properly aligned at the plant level to execute and ensure optimal profits.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Develop new and foster current relationships with internal and external customers as it relates to existing weekly business and pricing or the opportunity for new customers/business.
- Execute weekly pricing management to ensure products are properly billed based on formulas and agreed upon freight.
- Identify and correct freight opportunities as they pertain to light loads or movement of customers shipping days to ensure freight rate optimization and improvement of on-time delivery.
- Collaborate with Sales team to identify products in need of an upgrade, this could relate to an upgrade on pricing or in product mix.
- Collaborate with Production/Operations teams to inform them on sales related issues at the plant level as well as being the source for sales related questions on product mix, pricing or products sold.
- Identify products being sent to cold storage that would have a better value proposition being sold fresh.
- Understand and utilize Agristats and EMI as a tool for benchmarking improvements in pricing and mix.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position will have supervisory responsibility.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Poultry Science or related field AND 3+ years of experience in sales or production planning environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
George’s is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search, apply or interview for a career opportunity with the Company, please send an email to [email protected] or call 479-927-7000 to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information to assist you
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disabled/Veterans