
Virtual Account Representative - Specialty Ingredients
Remote · USJob$50–62K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Virtual Account Representative manages a territory of existing accounts in specialty ingredients, pursuing new business and maintaining customer spend to meet sales quotas. The role is fully remote and home-based anywhere in the United States. It focuses on sales through customer engagement, territory and pipeline management, and identifying customer needs and opportunities.
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A Place Where People Matter. Start your career journey with Univar Solutions! Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. The Virtual Account Representative will manage a sales territory of existing accounts within the Performance Materials, Health & Nutrition, or CARE Manufacturing space, responsible for achieving their assigned sales quota through new business acquisition and maintaining existing spend. This is a growth-focused sales position, not a customer service or support role, and requires a self-motivated, results-driven individual capable of independent decision making and strategic territory management. This is a fully remote, home-based position available anywhere in the US states. All work is conducted from home. What youll do: - Engage with customers through regular sales calls via phone/email/video conference to learn about their business goals, ingredient needs, and identify opportunities for growth. - Ensure existing business re-orders are secured through regular monitoring of buying patterns and effective territory management. - Manage a robust new product opportunity pipeline while regularly updating progress in Salesforce.com - Uncover competitive pricing intel, buying drivers, and customer pain points to negotiate for and win new business. - Stay updated on market and product line offerings to provide value and insight to customer base. - Identify customer potential and appropriately align with service level and sales channel. What youll need: - 1+ year of sales experience in a B2B environment & HS Diploma/GED. - Food or Nutra chemical ingredient experience is a plus but not required. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to develop strong, successful business relationships with customers as well as internal teammates. - Well-honed listening and problem-solving skills to uncover needs and motivations to overcome objections in order provide the services and/or products that best fit the customer's needs. - Attention to detail and excellent digital literacy including Microsoft Suite as well as CRM platforms such as Salesforce.com Where youll work: - Home-based opportunity for candidates based anywhere in the United States. No travel. Pay & Benefits: The salary range for this role is USD 49,930 - 62,420 . The specific salary offered to a candidate may be motivated by a variety of factors including the candidate's proven experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive pay. Available employee benefits include health, vision, and dental. We also provide 401k matching for retirement and paid time off. Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more. Our global team of more than support our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor on the planet! We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion. Together, we are building a culture tha
How this job compares
Set against the 53,952 open Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$50–62K/yr
- Ohio median$87–125K/yr891 salary ranges
- US median$95–145K/yr26,138 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $56K, is 48% below the Ohio median midpoint ($108K) — in the lowest quarter of Sales salary ranges in Ohio.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,240 open Sales jobs in Ohio and 53,952 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Sales postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 29,952 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 19,688 of the 53,952 open Sales jobs (36%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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