Sales Manager

Major Recruitment; Bamberg; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading dairy cooperative is seeking an International Sales Manager to organize and execute sales initiatives across Western Europe. The ideal candidate will have experience with dairy ingredients in the infant nutrition market and a background in multinational business. Responsibilities include creating sales plans, expanding the customer base, and implementing sales strategies. Foreign language skills in English are required, along with a willingness to travel.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with dairy ingredients in the infant nutrition market within Europe.
• Previous experience in a multinational business.

Aufgaben

• Organizing, planning, and executing sales initiatives for clients.
• Shaping strategic sales policy and creating sales plans.
• Providing support and expanding the customer base.
• Developing new markets and forwarding customer-related processes.
• Preparing and tracking quotations.
• Implementing sales strategies and conducting market analyses.

Kenntnisse

Experience in the Western European market

Knowledge of dairy ingredients

Foreign language skills – business fluent English

Enjoy working with customers

Willingness to travel

Jobbeschreibung

International Sales Manager

Dairy Ingredients

Germany

Major Talent is partnered with a leading dairy cooperative based in Germany with a strong global presence. We are recruiting for the food ingredients business unit and looking to speak with sales managers based in Germany

We are looking to speak with candidates who have experience with dairy ingredients in the infant nutrition market within Europe.

As a Sales Manager, you will be responsible for organising, planning and executing sales initiatives for industrial, commercial and contract manufacturing clients with a view to maximising volumes and profitability to achieve annual budget targets.

Responsibilities of a Sales Manager

• Area of responsibility: Western Europe with a focus on Benelux, Scandinavia and the UK
• Helping to shape strategic sales policy
• Creating sales and revenue plans
• Providing intensive support and expanding the customer base
• Developing new markets and customers
• Forwarding order- or customer-related processing steps for further processing in the Sales Support Ingredients department and other related specialist departments
• Preparing and tracking quotations until completion
• Coordinating quantity and pricing policy with the Head of Sales
• optimisation of your own customer portfolio
• Implementing the sales strategy and expanding the market position
• Conducting market and competition analyses in cooperation with Product Management
• Participating in trade fairs
• Monitoring the competition and market for new products and trends in cooperation with Product Management
• Project work and project responsibility for assigned projects

Skills Required to be a Sales Manager

• Experience in the Western European market
• Knowledge of dairy and dairy ingredients with whey protein being of particular interest
• Previous experience working in a Multinational business
• Foreign language skills – business fluent English, another foreign language desirable
• Enjoy working with customers
• Willingness to travel