Teams at Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Field-based sales intern supporting Purina dealers and cooperatives across the West Region. Responsibilities include growing existing customer accounts, building sales pipelines, promoting animal nutrition products, analyzing local market opportunities, and engaging directly with producers through farm visits, meetings, events, and feed trials. The role includes training, mentorship, customer-facing sales activities, and projects focused on territory growth and product adoption.

Drives profitable sales growth across Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota by developing accounts, managing customer relationships, conducting consultative sales, monitoring competition, collaborating internally, supporting vendors, and providing territory sales projections. The role serves as the primary customer contact, strengthens loyalty, communicates market intelligence, and manages opportunities, complaints, pricing insights, and customer satisfaction across the assigned animal agriculture territory.

Manages territory sales growth, customer accounts, market development, competitive intelligence, vendor relationships, and sales forecasting. Builds long-term customer relationships, leads consultative selling, communicates market opportunities internally, resolves customer issues, and collaborates cross-functionally to maximize profitability across the assigned animal agriculture territory. The role requires approximately 75% travel, including overnight travel.