Territory Senior Sales Representative, Beef Monitoring – High Plains / Western Kansas

Senior Territory Representative

Our company's Animal Health is a leading animal health company with an exceptionally strong brand and reputation among beef and dairy producers, veterinarians, and nutritionists. The Senior Territory Representative is a key member of the field sales team and plays a critical role in supporting our company's customer centric business model. This position is responsible for working in a geographic-based environment to understand and identify customer needs, by selling our company's Animal Health products, supporting pull-through activities relative to the customer strategy, and ensuring that our company's Animal Health is viewed as bringing value and technical innovations aligned to our strategic focus of the Science of Healthier Animals. The primary responsibility is to help accelerate the growth of our cattle portfolio of products by calling on territory-based customers in the area to leverage the entire portfolio. Coordination with the Regional Sales Manager on opportunities, and with other colleagues will be a focus with this role. In addition, assigned and regional distribution account management is a key responsibility while supporting customer pull-through activities within the assigned geographic based sales region. The Senior Territory Representative reports to the assigned Regional Sales Manager.

Essential Accountabilities:

• Represent our company's Animal Health within a geographical base made up of different segments of the beef complex.
• Promote the use of Sense Hub as a value add and expertise of our company's Animal Health.
• Work with our company's Animal Health team members, territory managers, our company's Animal Health and regional management, and distribution to plan and implement the sales planning process.
• Identify segment customers that have the potential to be a fit for Sense Hub monitoring in an identified territory base. Enlist support from our company's Animal Health resources to execute tactics.
• Plan interactions internally and externally within customer base that transfer knowledge to the customer and share best practices and utilize relationships up and down the supply chain.
• Work closely with our company's Animal Health Technical Service and Customer Success teams to create customized value propositions and identify opportunities to best increase sales with each account.
• Communicate and collaborate with the Strategic Accounts Team to learn and share best business practices.
• Create account specific business plans
• Analyze sales results monthly and manage expenses within budget guidelines.
• Develop current understanding of our company's Animal Health products, industry trends and competitor landscape, business model, key influencers/ network structure and make information available to relevant stakeholders to influence sales trends.
• Develop and master current understanding of all current our company's Animal Health products, offerings, industry trends and competitor landscape, to better collaborate internally and externally and communicate to relevant stakeholders that influence sales trends.

Scope and Context:

This position is an individual contributor sales role aligned with a specific region. The role has high expectations of planning, executing, teamwork and coaching.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required (Agriculture related discipline preferred).
• Minimum of two (2) years of animal health sales experience is required.
• Experience in beef markets.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated motivation and focus on achieving measurable, tangible results.
• Demonstrated ability to build internal relationships and work collaboratively in an organization
• Successfully demonstrated skills in planning, organization, communication, selling and business acumen
• Must be able to travel overnight minimum 50% depending on the geography and responsibilities

Required Skills:

• Account Management
• Adaptability
• Customer Experience Design
• Customer Experience Management
• Inbound Phone Sales
• Industry Knowledge
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Lead Generation
• Market Analysis
• Product Knowledge
• Sales Forecasting
• Sales Goal Achievement
• Sales Operations
• Sales Presentations
• Sales Reporting
• Sales Strategy Development
• Sales Training
• Technical Product Sales

Preferred Skills:

• Experience selling animal health products

U.S. Hybrid Work Model:

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".

Salary Range:

$96,200.00 - $151,400.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.