Agri-King is hiring an experienced Dairy Specialist to provide advisory expertise to Agri-King s clientele. This is a fantastic work-from-home opportunity where you ll get the chance to play an integral role in helping Agri-King create long-standing relationships with agriculture professionals. We currently have an opening for our North Central, New York region. Agri-King provides livestock producers with a personalized nutritional program that offers flexible and affordable solutions. This industry leader is dedicated to improving herd profitability and optimum herd health and performance for every client.
Job Duties:
- Ability to relate well to dairy producers and farmers while providing nutritional and management consultations
- Maintain an existing customer base as well as grow product sales through prospecting, cold calling and referrals
- Represent company at Trade Shows, Dairy Expos and Association meetings to promote our products.
- Be disciplined, professional and have the ability to stay self-motivated
- Provide a consultative sales approach to build long-lasting, trusting relationships
- Build and strengthen long-lasting client relationships through accurate product knowledge, timely feed sampling, ration adjustments, troubleshooting, and professional customer service
- Create forage treatment plans to help farms improve the quality of their forages with the use of inoculates as well as with improved forage management strategies
- Curate solutions to improve dairy herds components (butter fat and protein), and milk production by creating feed rations with a custom mineral mix targeted towards farms individual production goals
- Collaborate with other area managers to conduct field research on the feed quality differences between Agri-King inoculants and competitor inoculants on the market to help producers see the value in their purchases
- Present to farms on different products the company offers to build customer awareness and knowledge
Requirements:
- Experience working in within dairy or beef cattle nutrition or have an agriculture background is required
- Territory management/sales experience is preferred
- Bachelor or associate degree in dairy or animal science is strongly preferred
- Must be able to manage a productive work-from-home schedule
- Proficiency working with counselor-based selling
Benefits:
- Competitive salary with an attractive bonus structure
- Lucrative healthcare coverage
- Profit Sharing
- Retirement Plan
- Employee stock option plan
- Flexible schedule
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual who is ready to serve both Agri-King s customers and employees to assist the team in delivering the best products and services to every customer.