Account Manager Indulgence Food Ingredients (DACH Region) (mfd)
Job Location:
Düsseldorf - Germany
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe responsible and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain partnering with producers and customers to source make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with lifes essentials we enable businesses to grow communities to prosper and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers food service customers and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry beef egg alternative protein salt oils starches sweeteners cocoa and chocolate.
As Account Manager you will manage key customers in the bakery chocolate confectionery ice cream and sweet dairy segments primarily in the DACH region.
In this role you will work with a diverse and complex product portfolio (including cocoa and chocolate fats and oils starches sweeteners and texturizers). You will act as a trusted partner helping customers succeed through tailored ingredient solutions while driving profitable sustainable growth.
The role can be based in Germany (preferred location) Netherlands or Belgium.
- Manage a portfolio of customers and drive growth and profitabiltiy
- Build strong client relationships and act as the primary point of contact
- Identify and execute upselling and cross-selling opportunities
- Develop and deliver account plans forecasts and pipeline management
- Lead contract negotiation and commercial agreements
- Collaborate with R&D marketing supply chain and customer service teams
- Translate market insights and customer needs into actionable business strategies
- Deliver value-added ingredient solutions to your customers
- Represent the company at customer meetings trade fairs and industry events
- Travel 25% of the time
- Master Degree in Business Economics or Food/Bio-Technology or related field
- Background in food ingredients commodities specialty ingredients or similar sectors
- Strong experience in sales negotiation and customer relationship management
- Ability to build and maintain trust-based customer relationships
- Commercial mindset with the ability to balance customer needs and business objectives
- Experience in account planning pipeline management and forecasting
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to identify and execute growth opportunities (upselling and cross-selling)
- Strategic thinking combined with strong execution and results orientation
- Ability to navigate complexity and adapt to changing market dynamics
- Cross-functional collaboration skills
- Analytical thinking and confident decision-making
- Fluency in German and English
#LI-CH1
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
Interested Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:
Follow us on LinkedIn: is committed to being an inclusive employer. Click here to find out more Experience:
Manager
About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.
