Key Account Manager - Swine
Can you guide our clients towards optimal hygiene management on their farms?
Are you ready to take responsibility for guiding and coaching our clients in The United States? As a Key Account Manager- Swine, your role is to sell our HyCare concept across the USA. You will lead key customers and dealers to our method of livestock biosecurity that is helping swine integrators across the country achieve optimum results.
What is HyCare?
It has been proven: HyCare works! This comprehensive and practical method enables livestock farms to create a healthy environment for their animals. Through our expansive product line, livestock farms utilize chemicals (such as our cutting-edge TopFoam Power- now in HyBags!), water line treatments, and so much more to protect their operations. More information about HyCare can be found here.
Who Are We?
We are Schippers USA, a member of The Schippers Group, a family business founded in 1966. Our products and services are aimed at using hygiene management to create a healthy living environment for animals. After all, our motto is "prevention is better than cure". We have already made great strides, but we continue to grow! We do this with over 500 colleagues in more than 40 countries from 12 different offices, including our modern head office in The Netherlands. Are you looking for a company with impact? Welcome to The Schippers Group!
What are you going to do?
- Develop strong relationships with key customers and dealers in the swine industry.
- Organise field trials and demonstrations on farms, ultimately leading to new customers.
- Assist in the transition from product sales to solution-based programs (HyCare) and help understand the value (ROI) of this approach.
- Develop a deep understanding of our products and their applications in the pig sector.
- Gather feedback from dealers, farmers, and end customers on product performance to provide insights for future product development.
- Carry out field trials to evaluate the effectiveness of Schippers’ hygiene products.
- Take an active role in industry events and trade shows to attract new customers and strengthen existing relationships.
What do we ask?
- Knowledge of the swine industry: you have extensive expertise in the pig sector, including experience in animal care, cleaning, disinfection, and biosecurity.
- Relevant Network: You are well-versed in the key integrators within this area and maintain a network of contacts with key decision-makers in the industry.
- Communication Skills: you can effectively convey complex technical concepts to clients in an efficient manner.
- Motivated Team Player: you are independent but seek collaboration with colleagues when it is beneficial.
- Passion for Hygiene: You have a profound interest in hygiene and understand its impact on the health and productivity of pigs.
- Customer-Centric approach: you are dedicated to the success of customers and are committed to helping them achieve their goals.
What do we offer?
- Competitive salary and engaging working conditions.
- Ability to work with international experts on improving biosecurity and animal health for livestock farmers in the USA.
- A young, dynamic, and international company that provides you the opportunity to grow quickly.
- Flexible workplace and working hours.
- Extensive professional development opportunities.
- Work for an innovative, evolving brand with a very high standard of quality.
If you are passionate about improving animal health through effective farm hygiene management practices, we would like to hear from you! Please send your resume and cover letter to recruitment@schippers.eu or click on the application button. You can also reach out to us if you have any questions related to this opening.
Location: Iowa, United States of America – Hybrid and Remote capabilities available.