At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead sales growth in the livestock sector and manage customer partnerships.
- Company: Join AB Vista, a global leader in animal nutrition technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, bonuses, company car, and career development.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the agricultural industry while travelling across East India.
- Qualifications: Strong commercial acumen and leadership skills in livestock operations.
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home-based role in East India, with approximately 60% travel across the region.
AB Vista, part of AB Agri (the agricultural division of ABF plc), is a global leader in animal nutrition technology, pioneering innovative feed solutions through research, collaboration, and technical expertise. We are seeking a Sales Manager to lead our Livestock operations in East India, based in Kolkata. In this key role, you'll drive growth within our poultry business, manage sales and distribution, and strengthen customer partnerships. With your technical background and extensive experience in the livestock or animal feed industry, you'll help shape AB Vista's continued success and expand our impact across the region.
What you'll be doing:
- Develop and execute strategic plans to achieve business objectives, identify new market opportunities, and drive revenue growth within the Livestock sector.
- Oversee daily sales, logistics, and distribution activities to ensure smooth and efficient business operations.
- Lead sales initiatives, set and monitor targets, maintain strong relationships with key customers and distributors, and ensure accurate forecasting in collaboration with the supply chain team.
- Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance to meet profitability goals, analysing results and taking corrective action where needed.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and regulatory updates; ensure adherence to all local laws and company policies while sharing key market insights with leadership.
- Build strategic partnerships, represent the company at industry events, and strengthen the organisation's presence and network across the Livestock sector.
What You'll Bring:
- Strong commercial acumen with an in-depth understanding of livestock operations, market trends, and business growth strategies.
- Proven leadership abilities with a track record of self-motivation, driving change, and delivering results.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Analytical and detail-oriented, with proficiency in financial analysis and budget management.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English and Bengali.
We're looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators. When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We're AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We're part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses. We're part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we'd love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes. When you do, we'll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won't affect your application. Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Questions about this role?
If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Lourdes Villalba via Lourdes.Villalba@abagri.com.
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