Field Sales Manager - Food Adjacencies

March 10

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

Although this job is listed in Pennsylvania, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏙️ Outside Sales

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Vantage Specialty Chemicals

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Vantage Specialty Chemicals is a leading provider of tailored chemical solutions across various high-growth consumer and industrial markets. With a core focus on bio-based surfactant chemistry, Vantage leverages its vertically integrated production capabilities and extensive technical expertise to offer customized formulations for personal care, beauty, food, life sciences, and specialty industrial applications. The company is committed to enabling tomorrow's solutions today by collaborating and innovating with customers to meet their diverse needs, from release agents in food production to surface treatments in aerospace. Vantage's broad product portfolio includes natural oils, fatty acids, specialty actives, and custom solutions that promote efficiency and quality across multiple industries.

Oleochemicals • Performance Materials • Personal Care • Food • Release Agents

501 - 1000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

💄 Beauty

📋 Description

• We have an open Field Sales Manager – Food Adjacencies opportunity at Vantage. • This is a key role on our sales team focused on driving business within our Food business, specifically for functional ingredients including release agents. • We are seeking a dynamic and sharp professional with Food and ingredients sales experience who can add significant value to the business and our customers. • The role will be based out of a remote office. • It is essential to be near a major airport. • To be successful in this role, we are seeking an individual with familiarity of commercial excellence, proven value capture and the flexibility to travel extensively. • This role is responsible for sales and gross margin growth of assigned segments, customers, and territories. • You will have the opportunity to develop account strategies, manage key accounts and contribute to business strategy and financial success. • This is a rewarding opportunity, with visible impact both internally and with business partners. • The position will frequently involve extended hours as necessary, the ability to work well under pressure and an intense pace.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or related field. • Minimum of Three (3) years’ demonstrated experience and proven success in sales and/or marketing of Food or chemicals. • Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration and sales techniques. • Capability to research, understand, and develop both current and prospective customers. • Very articulate, can communicate professionally and effectively, both verbally and in writing with both sales and technical staff, as well as management. • Strong planning, interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills. • Computer proficient and diligent in the use of commonly used software to support sales/marketing and business activities including MS Office Suite; ability to conduct research via internet. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills appropriate for the needs of the audience and ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics to customers and staff at all levels. • Capacity to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. • Aptitude to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems and to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. • Willingness and ability to travel 50% or more of the time. Travel is a mix of day and overnight trips.