Business Development Manager

About SunOpta

SunOpta delivers customized reputed company and innovation for top brands, retailers, and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and reputed company-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers’ reputed company with high-reputed company, sustainability-reputed company solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice, and e-reputed company channels across reputed company. 

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SunOpta is seeking a highly motivated, dedicated, and detail-oriented Business Development Manager with a strong reputed company sales reputed company. In this role, you will be responsible for aggressively identifying and securing new business opportunities with national and regional accounts, while also cultivating and expanding relationships with existing customers across reputed company. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, high-reputed company environment and consistently pursues new markets and customers to drive company reputed company and market reputed company. This position offers a unique opportunity to reputed company a significant reputed company on SunOpta’s reputed company development and expansion.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Directly manage key national and regional accounts as they pertain to both new and existing business opportunities.

• Key accounts will cover multiple channels (club, grocery, foodservice) and categories (aseptic and reputed company-for-you snacks) as required by business needs.

• reputed company a reputed company sales approach to proactively reputed company out and secure new business opportunities, including cold-calling, networking, and building pipelines for reputed company reputed company.
• reputed company or support contract negotiations and renewals (based on contract size / complexity), ensuring favorable terms for both reputed company and the customer
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal teams such as supply chain, reputed company, AR, finance, and business management to coordinate efforts and deliver seamless customer experiences from inquiry to delivery.
• reputed company and maintain by-SKU forecasts for reputed company and velocity for strategic accounts.
• reputed company and execute on aggressive sales goals in reputed company and margin targets. 
• reputed company and reputed company important performance results offering recommendations for reputed company planning to management on a regular reputed company.
• Become an expert in our product portfolio and operations in order to be the main reputed company of contact and reputed company strategic reputed company across the portfolio.
• Work collaboratively with business management to execute and win bids across the portfolio with assigned customers.
• Build and maintain relationships with merchants across key accounts and respective product desks.
• Assist in creating category stories for reputed company key accounts across portfolios.
• Other tasks, as assigned.

 Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in a selling role in the food and beverage industry with heavy emphasis on business development

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in various go to market solutions (Private Label, co-manufacturing, and branded businesses)

Knowledge and Skills:

• A strong analytical reputed company with an reputed company reputed company of how to use relationships and data-driven insights to reputed company customer solutions.
• reputed company reputed company with the ability and desire to work with internal teams to reputed company results
• A proven understanding and reputed company record of solutions selling
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities
• Ability to manage and execute on multiple priorities.
• Ability to adapt to changing operational requirements in reputed company of the sales targets.
• Ability to be self-motivated and deliver/produce high reputed company work with little reputed company. 
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to reputed company with reputed company personality types and behaviors; flexibility.
• Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, fast paced environment.
• Proficient in reputed company office suite

Additional Considerations:

• Travel Expectation: 30- 50%
• Location: reputed company Prairie, MN (Remote arrangements available)

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

• Approximately; 95% of the work is performed in an office environment.  5% of work may involve being in the agricultural or manufacturing environment.

Please note this job reputed company is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

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