The Role:

The Dairy Account Manager will work from his/her home office, preferably in the Moscow area, with monthly meetings in the Client’s Sales office in Moscow. Business travel will be a minimum of 50-60% of work time throughout Russia, with occasional travels to other CIS countries or meetings in Europe or the USA.

This is a newly created additional position within Client’s existing Dairy sales team (presently 2 Dairy specialists) reporting to the Country Manager-Russia and CIS Countries and is primarily responsible for sales, sales development, and commercial and technical support of Client’s products to Dairy industry in Russia and CIS countries.

Duties:

• Promote Client’s products and solutions through personal meetings with large Dairy operations in Russia, either directly or in cooperation with regional distributors.
• Maintain good contacts with all Dairy customers and ensure good commercial and technical support, in cooperation with technical specialists.
• Develop new sales to existing and new Dairy Customers.
• Participate in the development of the Client’s yearly sales strategy, both short and long-term growth objectives, for Dairy sales in Russia.

• Achieve sales goals and objectives within the established budget.
• Identify potential new applications and market opportunities.

The Candidate:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s Degree preferred, in Zootechnical or Veterinary Sciences.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in the Feed or Feed Additive business in Russia related to Dairy.
• Experience in sales and marketing activities, combined with good technical knowledge of dairy nutrition and dairy farm management.

• The ability to read, write and speak English is essential.

• Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office and using the internet.