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16.05.2025
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Are you passionate about sustainable materials and driving sales growth? Arkema’s High Performance Polymers Business is seeking a dynamic Account & Business Development Manager to join our Specialty Polyamide team in Germany.
Arkema is a certified top employer and a global leader in innovative materials for a sustainable world (https://hpp.arkema.com/en/sustainability/).
Your Tasks:
- Manage sales and business development of Specialty Polyamides granules in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and CEE regions, targeting industrial, consumer, and textile markets.
- Implement sales strategies in line with global guidelines, negotiating volume and prices with customers and distributors.
- Proactively prospect, initiate new projects, and develop recurrent sales.
- Support high-value specialty polymers in fast-growing markets with double-digit annual growth, fostering a team-oriented hunting mode.
- Contribute to ongoing industrial investments, expanding production capacities worldwide, focusing on biobased products with high demand.
- Report business performance to the Global Market Manager Industry/O&G and EMEA Sales based in France.
- Report hierarchically to the local/regional country Manager, based at the Arkema local office or remotely.
Your Qualifications:
- 3-5 years experience in sales and/or business development.
- Fluent in German and English; French is a plus.
- Graduated from an engineering school or holds a PhD, with strong commercial and communication skills.
- Experience in international business environments and matrix organizations.
- Understanding of technical polymers' performance and processing is advantageous.
- Autonomous, responsive, curious, well-organized, and proactive.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% for customer meetings.
Our Offer:
- Attractive salary package including a company car.
- Employee share ownership program.
- 30 days of annual leave.
- Comprehensive social benefits such as pension allowance, accident insurance (including private coverage), and term life insurance.