Ruminant Territory Sales Manager (South Central Kansas) - Merck

**Job Description** **Position Description:** **Ruminant Territory Sales Manager (South Central Kansas)** Our Company's Animal Health is a leading animal health company with an exceptionally strong brand and reputation among beef and dairy producers, veterinarians, and nutritionists. The Territory Manager is a key member of the field sales team and plays a critical role in supporting our company's customer centric business model. This position is responsible for working in an geographic-based environment to understand and identify customer needs, by selling our company's Animal Health products, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that our company's Animal Health is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus of the Science of Healthier Animals. Our Territory Representatives interact face to face with our customers, understand their needs and consult to offer the right solutions. We work collaboratively in Field Sales Teams and play a critical role in supporting our customer centric business model. The primary responsibility is to help accelerate the growth of our cattle portfolio of products by calling on territory based customers in the area to leverage the entire portfolio. Coordination with the Regional Sales Manager on opportunities, and with other AH colleagues will be a focus with this role. In addition, assigned and regional distribution account management is a key responsibility while supporting customer pull-through activities within the assigned geographic based sales region. Key responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: + Represent our Company's Animal Health/Animal Health Intelligence within a geographical base made up of different segments of the beef complex. + Promote the use of technology as a value add and expertise of our Company. + Work with our company's team members, territory managers, our Company's regional management, and distribution to plan and implement the sales planning process. + Identify segment customers that have the potential to make the largest impact on our company's market share in an identified territory base. Enlist support from our company's resources to execute tactics. + Plan interactions internally and externally within customer base that transfer knowledge to the customer and share best practices, and utilize relationships up and down the supply chain. + Work closely with our company's Animal Health Technical Service to create customized value propositions and identify opportunities to best increase sales with each account. + Communicate and collaborate with the Strategic Accounts Team to learn and share best business practices. + Create account specific business plans + Analyze sales results monthly and manage expenses within budget guidelines. + Develop current understanding of our company's Animal Health products, industry trends and competitor landscape, business model, key influencers/ network structure and make information available to relevant stakeholders to influence sales trends. + Develop and master current understanding of all current our company's products, offerings, industry trends and competitor landscape, to better collaborate internally and externally and communicate to relevant stakeholders that influence sales trends. This position is an individual contributor sales role aligned with a specific region. The role has high expectations of planning, executing, teamwork and coaching. **Leadership Behaviors** + Demonstrate Ethics & Integrity + Drive Results + Focus on Customers + Act with Courage & Candor + Build Talent + Foster Collaboration **Professional Competencies** + Business & Financial Acumen + Working Across Boundaries + Coaching & Teaching. + Project Management + Productive Communication + Problem Solving **Core Commercial Functional Competencies** + Customer and Market Insights + Product Knowledge + Account Management + Customer Engagement + Other-Centered Selling Principles + Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge **Position Qualifications** **:** **Education Minimum Requirement:** + Bachelor's degree (Agriculture related discipline preferred). **Required Experience and Skills:** + Minimum of two (2) years of animal health sales experience is required. + Experience in beef markets. + Excellent interpersonal/communication and presentation skills. + Demonstrated motivation and focus on achieving measurable, tangible results. + Demonstrated ability to build internal relationships and work collaboratively in an organization + Successfully demonstrated skills in planning, organization, communication, selling and business acumen + Must be able to travel overnight minimum 50% depending on the geography and responsibilities. **Preferred Experience and Skills:** + Experience selling animal health products **NOTICE** **FOR** **INTERNAL** **APPLICANTS** In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions. 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