Business 2 Brands Sales Manager

Location: Belgium

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional FMCG and Food organization, based in Antwerpen Belgium.

is an international operating food company, specialized in the production and commercialization of cocoa derivatives and chocolate products ( in this case final products ). This company has grown extensively over the last three years. Innovation and product quality are important pillars for this company, as one of the most important European manufacturers of choco products.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Are you a real Sales man/women? Do you have experience with the sales of finished consumer foods/products? Then this is the job for you!

To strengthen its commercial activities in the spreads field we are looking for a seasoned Business 2 Brands Senior Account Manager. In this role you will manage the Business 2 Brands (large multinationals) accounts in the International markets. In this challenging role as a senior manager in the commercial team you have an important task of strengthening the existing clients and search for new potential segments on the markets where spreads can be promoted.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Responsible for the negotiations and follow up of the A brands clients consisting of large multinationals.
- As a strong communicator you will continuously be looking for potential business with new customers among the international Food brands.
- You will be in close contact with International purchasers, R&D and production managers to screen potential new products.
- A Good knowledge and understanding of actual trends in the food market is crucial to be able to be one step ahead and to think creatively together with the clients for developing new products.

REQUIREMENTS

- BSc or MSc in Economics or Business Administration
- Experience with brands/consumer end- products is a real must
- Minimum of 5 years of commercial experience
- Strong negotiator at management level/experience with major accounts
- Experience with A brands and FMCG in Marketing or Trade marketing
- People manager and result oriented
- Fluent in Dutch, English and very valuable: French
- Nice to have: German or Spanish
- You are enthusiastic and have demonstrable experience with managing key accounts within A brands and multinationals
- You have International experience and are able to translate, customer needs and food trends, into opportunities

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Paul van Voorst.