Associate Customer Development Manager – Mid-West Prepared Foods

Summary: As an Associate Customer Development Manager (Assoc CDM), you'll play a key role in selling retail prepared products and increasing market share by optimizing merchandising plans and executing impactful promotions. Your efforts will help shape our market presence and drive business success. You'll maintain strong engagement across an assigned customer base and/or geography, which will include travel to Midwest locations for customer meetings and food shows. This role offers opportunities to develop leadership skills, advance within the company, and work closely with a collaborative and supportive team.

Key Responsibilities: Drive sales of retail prepared products to two assigned customers in the Midwest. Optimize merchandising plans and execute actions to amplify promotions with customers. Maintain regular engagement with customers through travel, meetings, and food shows. Collaborate closely with internal teams, including Customer Strategy and Execution, Sales, and Business Units, as well as externally with Brokers on category insights. Meet Annual Operating Plan (AOP) sales and profitability targets. Manage trade fund budgets and provide weekly and annual sales forecasts. Present and secure innovation with customers. Provide weekly communication to leadership on customer outcomes. Support retail execution of sales plans.

Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Experience: Minimum 3 years of sales experience; CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) sales experience preferred. Computer Skills: Basic computer proficiency required. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities. Special Skills: Project management and/or strategic planning experience required.

Travel: 6–12+ trips per year to Midwest locations for customer meetings and food shows. All professional team members are expected to demonstrate responsible use of approved AI tools, including safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and validating AI-generated outputs. Individual Contributors should demonstrate the ability to integrate AI into daily work, improve efficiency through AI-enabled solutions, evaluate outputs critically, and apply professional judgment when using AI. People Leaders should demonstrate the ability to drive responsible AI adoption, enable effective use of approved solutions, identify opportunities to improve team performance through AI, and ensure accountability for the quality and accuracy of AI-supported outcomes. Relocation Assistance Eligible: NoWork Shift:1ST SHIFT (United States of America) Certain roles at Tyson require background checks. If you are offered a position that requires a background check you will be provided additional documentation to complete once an offer has been extended. Hourly Applicants ONLY -You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment. The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation. Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status. We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more. If you would like to learn more about your data privacy rights and how you may use that information, please read our Job Applicant Privacy Notice here. Unsolicited Assistance: Tyson Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited support from external recruitment vendors for open positions within the United States. Any resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee or applicant tracking system at Tyson Foods or its subsidiaries, without a valid written request and search agreement approved by HR, will be considered the property of Tyson Foods. No fees will be paid if the candidate is hired due to an unsolicited referral.

Location: Corporate - Springdale, Arkansas

Type: Full time