Perdue AgriBusiness is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. An international agricultural products and services company, we handle agricultural commodities and have a diverse portfolio of products and businesses. **Summary** The Technical Sales Manager will provide technical nutritional support for the Dairy Nutrition’s territory managers and external nutritionist within the territory managers area of geographical responsibility (Western States). As well as provide input to product development and university research projects. **Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities** + Support and provide educational training to the domestic and international sales representatives to ensure they are competent in leading edge nutritional research and product development. + Provide technical nutritional support for the domestic and international sales representatives and external nutritionist. + Support the development of technical sales information to support the sale of new and existing products. + Support the development of formulation/modeling. + Represent the company at public and professional functions as required. + Perform other task and projects as assigned by supervisor or other Perdue AgriBusiness manager. **Minimum Education** + Masters of Science (Animal Science, Dairy Science) - **_required_** + Ph.D. (Animal Nutrition) – **_preferred_** **Experience Requirements** + Understanding of the dairy industry. + Understanding of feed formulation. + Understanding of sales and marketing to the dairy feed industry. + Understanding of dairy nutrition. + Understanding of standard software applications. **Experience Preferred** + 5+ Years of higher level education and/or dairy industry experience. **Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements** Able to move freely throughout the AgriBusiness facilities to include climbing vertical heights (0 - 150'), exposure to extreme temperatures (0-100 Degrees Fahrenheit), humidity, (0 - 100%), noise (50db to 100db) and chemicals (MSDS sheets available). Able to use standard office and communication equipment. Required to travel to remote Company facilities and travel to meetings with suppliers and customers. _Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status._