Italian Meat & Prepared Foods Account Manager

Novonesis; Como; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Novonesis is seeking an Account Manager Meat & Prepared Food (m/f) to develop and manage existing accounts in Italy. The role is hybrid or remote, with travels across the SEE region and collaboration with regional teams and stakeholders.

You will engage in sales growth, build long-term partnerships, and support distributors with trials, visits and trainings while coordinating cross-functional resources to deliver value to customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in food technology, biotechnology, microbiology or science-related field.
• Experience in technical sales managing customer relationships and commercial projects.
• Direct experience in R&D, production, quality or meat/food industry knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales growth identifying new business opportunities and expanding existing customers and relationships.
• Manage and develop customers and network focusing on consistent engagement and strong long-term partnerships within the industry on a local basis.
• Support distributors in frontline activities with relevant customers of distributors (visits & meetings, trials, trainings, etc.) coordinating activities when local or global resources are needed.
• Feed, develop, execute and monitor ambitious project pipeline as integral part of the commercial strategy for the region.
• Lead commercial discussions including value propositions, pricing and agreements.

Skills

Relationship building

Communication

Presentation skills

Sales strategy

Team collaboration

English language

Italian language

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in food science/related field

Tools

CRM (SalesForce)

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Novonesis is seeking an Account Manager Meat & Prepared Food (m/f) to develop and manage existing accounts in Italy. The role is hybrid or remote, with travels across the SEE region and collaboration with regional teams and stakeholders.

You will engage in sales growth, build long-term partnerships, and support distributors with trials, visits and trainings while coordinating cross-functional resources to deliver value to customers.