Job Description
Region: Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
Summary:
Regional Farm & Ranch leads strategic growth and direct management of key regional retail accounts within the Purina Animal Nutrition portfolio, overseeing sales targets, promotional planning, and customer execution. They collaborate across National Accounts and crossfunctional teams to align insights, optimize operations, and drive successful retail partnerships.
The ADM leads overall business performance by driving sales growth, managing extensive and large budgets, maintaining accurate Salesforce and account plans, and using data and crossfunctional insights to shape effective promotional and growth strategies. They also execute customer engagement through strong communication, regular inperson and virtual engagement, partnership with cross functional teams, and ROMs on storelevel basis's while ensuring customers are fully enabled to continue to drive success with Purina branded products.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive overall business performance by leading sales growth initiatives, managing account profitability, and executing strategic plans across assigned customer portfolios.
- Oversee financial and operational management, including large trade budgets, accurate account planning, and consistent Salesforce updates to ensure strong business visibility and discipline.
- Leverage data, analytics, and customer insights to develop and optimize promotional strategies, pricing plans, and long-term growth opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships through regular in-person and virtual engagement, delivering clear, effective communication and influencing joint business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally and with ROMs to execute in-store initiatives, ensure customer enablement, and drive successful adoption and growth of Purina-branded products.
Required Qualifications:
- 4-year college degree in Animal Science, Agriculture Business, or other related fields.
- 5 years or more of consumer package goods or related sales experience with strong knowledge of customer data sources, systems, and work processes
- Strong selling and negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to find mutually beneficial solutions
- Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Goal oriented, self-starter with entrepreneurial spirit and proven ability to achieve results through self and others
- Strong analytical skills with solid financial acumen and the ability to understand and process data while developing actionable recommendations
- Ability to perform effectively in remote team environment and manage multiple shifting priorities
- Ability to travel ~30% of the time
Salary range: $107,680 - $161,520 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
Land O'Lakes does not use Automated Decision-Making Technology, as defined by California law, to substantially replace human decision-making or make significant decisions about applications for employment or contracting opportunities.
Region: Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
Summary:
Regional Farm & Ranch leads strategic growth and direct management of key regional retail accounts within the Purina Animal Nutrition portfolio, overseeing sales targets, promotional planning, and customer execution. They collaborate across National Accounts and crossfunctional teams to align insights, optimize operations, and drive successful retail partnerships.
The ADM leads overall business performance by driving sales growth, managing extensive and large budgets, maintaining accurate Salesforce and account plans, and using data and crossfunctional insights to shape effective promotional and growth strategies. They also execute customer engagement through strong communication, regular inperson and virtual engagement, partnership with cross functional teams, and ROMs on storelevel basis's while ensuring customers are fully enabled to continue to drive success with Purina branded products.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive overall business performance by leading sales growth initiatives, managing account profitability, and executing strategic plans across assigned customer portfolios.
- Oversee financial and operational management, including large trade budgets, accurate account planning, and consistent Salesforce updates to ensure strong business visibility and discipline.
- Leverage data, analytics, and customer insights to develop and optimize promotional strategies, pricing plans, and long-term growth opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships through regular in-person and virtual engagement, delivering clear, effective communication and influencing joint business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally and with ROMs to execute in-store initiatives, ensure customer enablement, and drive successful adoption and growth of Purina-branded products.
Required Qualifications:
- 4-year college degree in Animal Science, Agriculture Business, or other related fields.
- 5 years or more of consumer package goods or related sales experience with strong knowledge of customer data sources, systems, and work processes
- Strong selling and negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to find mutually beneficial solutions
- Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Goal oriented, self-starter with entrepreneurial spirit and proven ability to achieve results through self and others
- Strong analytical skills with solid financial acumen and the ability to understand and process data while developing actionable recommendations
- Ability to perform effectively in remote team environment and manage multiple shifting priorities
- Ability to travel ~30% of the time
Salary range: $107,680 - $161,520 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
Land O'Lakes does not use Automated Decision-Making Technology, as defined by California law, to substantially replace human decision-making or make significant decisions about applications for employment or contracting opportunities.
About Land O'Lakes
A career at Land O’Lakes means working at the heart of the dynamic agriculture and food industries—and helping to solve some of the world’s greatest food challenges. If you know us as “the butter company,” you may be surprised to discover that we’re behind many trusted brands, including Purina®, WinField™ United, Kozy Shack®, Vermont Creamery®, and Philia™, among others. We’re #232 on the Fortune 500 list, with 8,000+ employees doing business in all 50 U.S. states and 50 countries around the world.
From crop inputs that grow into the grain that animals eat, to a final product on a store shelf, Land O’Lakes has a farmer-to-fork view. Pair this with our farmer ownership, and we're uniquely qualified to fulfill our purpose of Feeding Human Progress around the world, while always delivering on our responsibility to our owners. Just as we’ve been doing for nearly 100 years.
Explore a career with Land O’Lakes, and discover why Forbes, Indeed, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and many others have placed us on their best places to work lists.