WHO ARE YOU

UNILIN; Wielsbeke; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Attractive salary

Fringe benefits

Career opportunities

Challenges abroad

Training options

Résumé du poste

UNILIN in Wielsbeke, Belgium is seeking a Sales Director for the Decorative Surfaces industry to lead a sales team and drive business development. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of strategic sales experience and a master's degree, along with strong leadership skills and an affinity for design.

UNILIN offers an attractive salary, fringe benefits, and opportunities for career growth and international challenges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic sales roles.
• First experience in team/people management.
• Comfortable in international environments.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop a team of 4 sales professionals.
• Expand new customers and markets.
• Manage strategic key accounts and define commercial strategy.
• Regularly report on sales performance.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Business development

Strategic sales management

Analytical skills

Formation

Master’s degree

Description du poste

Sales Director Industry Decorative Surfaces

Within our Panels division, there’s an ambitious and fast-growing industrial segment where design and technical expertise come together. As Sales Director Decorative Industry, you will play a key role in further developing this business: you will lead a compact and international team, drive new business, and strengthen Unilin’s position as a strategic partner for the furniture and interior industry. You will operate in an environment where product, market, design, and production are closely intertwined, and where you actively contribute to shaping the future of the decorative segment.

• You lead and develop a team of 4 complementary sales professionals within the decorative industrial segment. You support your team in complex customer cases, negotiations, and key deals.
• You actively build and expand new customers and markets, with a strong focus on business development. You translate market trends and design insights into concrete commercial opportunities.
• You manage a limited number of strategic key accounts to stay closely connected to the market and to the operational reality.
• You define and drive the commercial strategy for the segment, aligned with the broader Unilin Panels strategy. You position Unilin as a high-quality, must-have partner in the industry.
• You collaborate closely with internal stakeholders such as general management, marketing, product management, pricing and quality.
• You strengthen the link with specification teams and ensure a consistent and profitable market approach.
• You contribute to the further professionalization of the sales approach, including pricing and margin management. You will be responsible for regular reporting on sales performance and results, meaning that the position also includes an analytical component.
• You will report to the Sales and Marketing Director.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You have a master’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in strategic sales roles. You gained your first experience in team/people management and you define yourself as a strong leader who gains energy from managing and developing people.
• You describe yourself as a true business developer who identifies and converts opportunities into growth. You are driven by acquiring and activating new customers.
• You have an affinity with the world of design, interiors, or decorative materials.
• You quickly understand complex organizations, products, and markets and you are comfortable in an international environment.
• You describe yourself as pragmatic and solution-oriented, and you thrive in environments with ambiguity. #LI-MD1

What can you expect?

Unilin is a fast-growing, profitable and bustling group that is active internationally. Innovation is our driving force. Investing in people, technology and sustainable entrepreneurship is characteristic of our culture.

Unilin thrives thanks to a team of colleagues that pride themselves on professionalism and entrepreneurship.

In exchange for your expertise, creativity and dynamism, Unilin offers an attractive salary supplemented with fringe benefits, career opportunities, challenges abroad and a wide range of training options.

Who are we?

Unilin Group is an international reference in interior design and construction industry solutions with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. With our floors, panels, insulation materials and technologies we are present in the homes and workplaces of millions of people and in public spaces across the globe. Our brands Quick-Step, Pergo and Moduleo probably ring a bell. Every day, some 8,300 employees around the world dig deep to push boundaries and innovate. Want to learn more about us? Then be sure to check out our website.