Insecticides Senior Sales Representative

Your Role

The purpose of the sales representative role in Elanco is to create demand and secure sales by professionally promoting, differentiating, delivering and demonstrating the value of Elanco products and services to customers and the people who influence their product use decisions. Sales representatives are held accountable for delivering sales results, managing territory business plan, aligning Elanco activities with account needs, and creating strategic territory/account plans and implementing agreed upon initiatives within those plans.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a territory plan including prioritization of opportunities which will deliver sustainable sales growth within the territory
• Deliver and transfer Key Messages and scientific information around Elanco products to key influencers / decision makers within the designated sales territory
• Identify and assess customer needs
• Uncover customer's solvable problems and opportunities
• Utilize Elanco's CRM system for both capturing relevant information and gleaning insight as part of the pre-call planning process
• Incorporate the Elanco product portfolio (products and services) as a part of the solution
• Work closely with salespeople and other internal teams to meet individual and group objectives
• Execute strategies and tactics with corporate accounts to enhance account team's ability to execute effectively under constantly changing circumstances
• Achieve sales growth in territory
• Represent the "voice of the customer" to Elanco management and marketing

What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Education: Bachelor Degree in related field or relevant experience
• Required Experience: 2 years Sales or poultry production experience
• Experience selling insecticides
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States

What Will Give You the Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Passion for selling and animal agriculture
• Ability to work with and influence custom insecticide applicators
• Ability to work with and influence swine, broiler, turkey and layer integrators along with key distributors
• Demonstrated ability to develop goals, key milestones and action plans for key accounts
• Savvy ability to develop, advance and maintain strong relationships
• Self-starter with high initiative and sound work ethic
• Demonstrated ability to learn, apply and communicate technical/scientific knowledge
• Flexible to learning new products and disease states over time
• Strong team member with ability to interact and coordinate a diverse set of resources across the customer base
• Entrepreneur mind set with strong grasp of business acumen
• Ability to relocate if necessary

Additional Information

Position is field based. Travel will be required. Overnight travel will depend on location; expect 40-60% overnight travel. Majority of customers are located in Southeast United States (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi area).