National Sales Manager - Nutrition Ingredients

Our client is seeking an experienced National Sales Manager to drive the continued growth of its commodity ingredients business across the United States.

This is a high-impact commercial role focused on developing new business, expanding strategic customer relationships and growing revenue across a broad portfolio of nutritional commodity ingredients. Working closely with sourcing, product management and operations teams, you will play a key role in strengthening the company's position within the North American nutritional ingredients market.

This opportunity is ideally suited to a commercially driven sales professional with a proven track record of selling nutritional ingredients and a passion for building long-term customer partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a national sales strategy to drive profitable growth across the United States.
• Identify and secure new business opportunities with dietary supplement manufacturers, food and beverage companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, contract manufacturers and ingredient distributors.
• Manage and grow a portfolio of strategic customer accounts while identifying opportunities to increase market share.
• Sell a broad portfolio of nutritional commodity ingredients, delivering commercially competitive solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Develop strong relationships with purchasing, procurement, sourcing, R&D and commercial decision-makers.
• Lead commercial negotiations, including pricing, contracts and supply agreements.
• Monitor market trends, customer activity and competitive developments to identify new business opportunities.
• Work closely with internal sourcing and operations teams to ensure continuity of supply and exceptional customer service.
• Maintain an active sales pipeline and deliver accurate sales forecasts.
• Represent the business at industry trade shows, conferences and customer meetings across North America.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will possess:

• Proven success in business development and account management within the nutritional ingredients industry.
• Experience selling commodity ingredients to the dietary supplement, food ingredient, beverage or pharmaceutical markets.
• A strong understanding of ingredient supply chains, commodity markets and commercial pricing strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to develop new business while managing strategic customer relationships.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation and communication skills.
• A results-driven approach with the ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Willingness to travel throughout the United States as required.

Location

Remote - Anywhere within the United States.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a respected global ingredients business with an established market presence, a high-quality product portfolio and significant opportunities for growth. You will have the autonomy to develop the market, build long-term customer relationships and play a key role in the continued expansion of the company's commodity ingredients business.

To learn more about this opportunity, or to apply in confidence, please get in touch.