Account Manager, Agricultural Market

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About the role

  • Desjardins account manager serving strategic agricultural clients. Promoting financial products, negotiating complex agreements, and balancing sales growth with prudent credit risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Prospect, solicit, develop and maintain business relationships with strategic agricultural-sector clients to promote and sell Desjardins products and services and grow the business centre's business
  • Represent, negotiate and engage companies in complex and innovative agreements of significant importance to the business centre
  • Balance sales objectives, sound and prudent risk management, portfolio profitability, and member, client and partner satisfaction
  • Initiate, develop and maintain personalized relationships with current and potential clients
  • Act as account manager and key intermediary between the business centre and members and clients
  • Ensure proper usage, updating and satisfaction with products and services; analyze dissatisfaction and recommend solutions
  • Identify and analyze needs, develop personalized solutions, prepare integrated service offerings, and negotiate applicable conditions
  • Recommend strategies and solutions to increase business volume, manage risk, improve portfolio profitability and strengthen business relationships
  • Identify business-development opportunities to improve product and service competitiveness
  • Execute promotional activities and participate in targeted public relations and the business community
  • Address client and member needs, seize business opportunities, and refer them appropriately
  • Follow applicable policies, practices, standards and laws governing financial product and service distribution
  • Provide sound and prudent risk management for assigned portfolios

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of six years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Knowledge of the latest financial, economic, policy and legislative developments
  • Ability to perform analyses of the market and the business centre external environment
  • Ability to perform financial analysis
  • Knowledge of the characteristics and credit risk inherent to the major agricultural and agriculture-related markets
  • Knowledge of loan and guarantee contracts
  • Knowledge of products and services for businesses and those offered by caisses, components and Desjardins distribution networks and those of the competition
  • Knowledge of financing and credit management practices related to businesses
  • Knowledge of policies, legislation and standards governing the products and services offered by the business centre
  • Knowledge of business credit authorization, monitoring, collection and recovery practices
  • Knowledge of Desjardins business processes
  • Understanding of the referral process
  • Familiarity with government business assistance programs
  • Networking skills
  • Strong sales skills
  • Knowledge of service standards
  • Understanding of cooperative and cooperative network values, rules and operations
  • Action oriented
  • Communicates effectively
  • Customer Focus
  • Differences
  • Drive results
  • Interpersonal Savvy
  • Nimble learning

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and annual bonus
  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
  • Group insurance including telemedicine
  • Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridDrummondvilleCanada

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