Commercial Sales Specialist - Extrusion Sales

Summary

AGT Foods is a supplier of value-added pulses, staple foods, food ingredients, and extrusion-based food products. The Commercial Sales Specialist will manage existing accounts, develop new customers, coordinate quotations and commercialization activities, maintain CRM records, and support market growth across assigned applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned existing accounts including regular customer communication, account planning, retention and expansion opportunities
• Prospect and develop new customers within the assigned market/application segment in alignment with category priorities
• Conduct customer meetings, discovery conversations and routine product/application discussions as capability develops
• Qualify opportunities and maintain clear next steps, timing, probability and commerical value in CRM
• Coordinate quotations, samples, trials and commercialization activities, ensuring the customer and internal teams understand requirements and timelines
• Prepare routine pricing/quote recommendations and operate within established pricing guardrails, escalate material exceptions
• Collect customer forecast information and communicate material demand changes, risks and opportunities
• Serve as the commercial owner throughout the order cycle while relying on the appropriate functional team to execute its responsibilities
• Gather market, competitor and customer intelligence and identify growth ideas for discussion with the Category Sales Manager
• Participate in customer visits, trade shows and industry activities as required
• Maintain strong CRM, reporting and follow-up discipline
• Continuously build product, application, commerical and selling capability

Skills

• -Degree in Commerce/Business, Administration or Agriculture
• -Demonstrated sales planning, forecasting, and sales execution experience (minimum of 3 years)
• - Demonstrated knowledge of industry and customers brands, platforms and strategies to be able to provide innovative customer-focused ideas
• - Manage and prioritize a high volume of work in a fast-paced environment
• - Proficient computer skills in Microsoft office products
• - Strong communication skills
• - Ability to work independently and remotely in a home office
• - Must be able to travel 25% or more
• Only those local candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada or the USA will be contacted
• - Language skills are a benefit

Qualifications

Must Haves

• -Degree in Commerce/Business, Administration or Agriculture
• -Demonstrated sales planning, forecasting, and sales execution experience (minimum of 3 years)
• - Demonstrated knowledge of industry and customers brands, platforms and strategies to be able to provide innovative customer-focused ideas
• - Manage and prioritize a high volume of work in a fast-paced environment
• - Proficient computer skills in Microsoft office products
• - Strong communication skills
• - Ability to work independently and remotely in a home office
• - Must be able to travel 25% or more
• only those local candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada or the USA will be contacted

Nice to Haves

• - Language skills are a benefit

Benefits

• Remote position
• Ability to work independently and remotely in a home office