Technical Sales Manager
Location: BelgiumSIRE 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.
This client is a Food Ingredients giant located in the region of Antwerp, Belgium. Innovation is key for them, as you will be working with the newest technology to market the best possible new products. Knowledge of both R&D and sales makes for strong customer support.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
You negotiate with key accounts and are responsible for pushing sales in the Netherlands and Belgium. You do this while having a food technological background, allowing you to answer specific customer questions and explain the science behind your products. The more sales experience you have, the better. At least 5 years of experience within Food is necessary to understand the market and anticipate changes, and experience within a B2B environment makes sure you understand your clients. You develop marketing concepts, individual product concepts, you set and keep the budgets for the European region.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Setting and keeping budgets
• Following the market
• Anticipating market changes and translating this to new, custom-made products
• Mediating with B2B clients about prices, concepts, conditions
• Key account management
• New Customer Development
REQUIREMENTS
• MSc or BSc in Food Technology
• minimum 5 years of experience in Food sales
• minimum of 3 years Food B2B experience
• Open, charismatic, convincing personality
• Fluent Dutch and English are both a must! Other European languages are a plus
• 30% of the job will be international travel, mostly within Europe
Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Anastasia de Vries.
