Ingredient Sales Manager - Gpac

Gpac is currently seeking an Ingredient Sales Manager for an international ingredients company. This role would be 100% remote with travel (30-70% depending on needs) and would prefer someone on the Eastern US region but will consider others. Reports to the VP. 

The purpose of this role is to gain new business relationships with companies who would buy additive ingredients from the company as their supplier for their finished products (ingredients would be sweetener additives or supplemental type of ingredients being sold to companies in food/beverage/ nutraceuticals). This would be B2B selling to businesses that create products like energy drink brands, dietary foods, supplements, or similar. They have several plants across East Asia where they would import their products into the US for their clients.

Here are the qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in the food and beverage industry or pet food industry
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 7+ years of experience in ingredient/industrial sales experience – National Account Sales needed for 3 or more years
• Experience with calling on manufacturers or distributors to sell ingredients products
• Experience/understanding with contract negotiations and cost analysis

This role would have a base salary in the lower six figure range (100k-120k) with uncapped commission structure with other benefits. *This role does not provide health insurance.

What makes this opportunity exciting is the ability to work in a larger territory starting off with just a few sales manager to cover each region of the US – East, Midwest, and western regions and may even allow you to move into different regions until others are hired on to help with the territory.

This company is family owned and operated and they seek to find those who function well within midsized, scaled companies. If you are looking for growth opportunities within a company as well, they are at the stage you would like to join with this role being the foundation to build up sales teams for this person to manage one day.

They continue to be a fast-growing business that is brining quality and trustworthy products as a supplier for their business relationships around the world.

If you have interest in this role and learning more, APPLY TODAY! Or reach out with your resume directly to Miranda at Miranda.hill@gogpac.com

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

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