Market Development Manager - Protein - Decatur, IL

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Job Title: Market Development Manager - Protein - Decatur, IL
Location: Decatur, IL, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Market Development Manager - Protein - Decatur, IL

Position Summary:

Within the Nutrition business unit, the plant-based protein business has a mission to be the global leader in non-meat based proteins, developing novel solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of consumers. The Market Development Manager will be responsible for driving growth of the North America Protein business. Additionally, the position will interact with global nutrition colleagues across multipe functions, including sales, marketing, regulatory, and creation, design and development (CD&D). The position reports directly to the VP, Protein North America and will be located in Decatur, IL

Responsibilities:

Assess and evaluate consumer-demand retail data, trade flows, government contracts, and general market studies that will determine go-to-market priorities by application and channel. Additionally will:
- - Perform market and customer mapping
  - Identify customers outperforming their peers
  - Calculate addressable market size
  - Understand where we are winning and accelerate learnings throughout the organization
  - Identify potential customers and prioritize based on business impact
Prioritize and assign potential customer opportunities to various sales team members based on priority and application
Monitor and track progress of new customer pipeline
Assist with new customer vetting and cold calling
Determine priority customers to support new ingredient product launches
Partner with commercial leaders to understand product line priorities
Balance growth priorities by understanding both industry trends and asset capabilities
Drive sales through successful collaboration with ADM sales force, business development, marketing and CD&D

Requirements:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
Ability to consolidate raw data into clear, prioritized action items
Strong presenter/communicator both within and outside the organization
Comfortable/experienced with analytics, preferred experience with Salesforce and AI tools
Effective at working in a matrix organization
Exhibits strong leadership and project management skills
Entrepreneurial owners mindset
Excellent collaborator and team player
Demonstrates ability to work under pressure and maintain flexibility to adjust to achieve organizational goals in a fast-paced environment
Ability to cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with people at all levels inside and outside of the organization
Ability to solve problems independently
Working knowledge of Microsoft suite
The position requires 20% travel and a strong work ethic

Required Experience:

Minimum of 3 years of sales, business management, market strategy, or food ingredient experience
Experience developing business strategies
Experience in Go to Market strategies
Strategic "hunter" mentality

Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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Job Post Date: 07/18/26