Technical Sales Manager
Location: NetherlandsSIRE 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 Food organization, based in Netherlands.
Our client is a large supplier of bakery and ice- cream ingredients for industrial bakeries. Our client is an innovative company which is always looking to create the best solutions for their customers. Based on years of experience they have built a strong product knowledge and process controlling, resulting in a high quality end products.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
For our client we are looking for a Sales Manager Bakery Ingredients for the Dutch Market. You will work in a B2B environment, with the focus on maintaining and building long- term relationships. With your technical background and knowledge you are able to give technical support to clients on location. A good understanding of food production processes bakery and ice- cream applications is needed. You also know how to provide insight in this processes. The concepts of quality, innovation, service and reliability are central to their business.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for achieving sales and volume growth in industrial , semi- industrial and artisanal customers in the bakery sector in the Netherlands
- Drafting account and sales plans based on current market trends and customer analytics
- Achieve the agreed sales targets
- Solution- based selling of ingredients by optimization and managing of the internal knowledge with existing and potential customers
- Negotiate contracts with respect to prices, volumes, terms of payment and other terms and conditions with clients and prospects
- Work closely with colleagues from supporting departments such as R & D, Technical Support and Logistics
REQUIREMENTS
- Master of Food technology or bio chemistry
- You have a background in the Bakery Industry or Bakery Ingredients Industry
- You have 5 years of working experience in the Bakery Industry
- You have Technical Sales skills
- Able to create good opportunities for customers by an openness and engagement
- Personal characteristics: commercial , initiative, result-oriented, customer-oriented , analytical, relationship builder , proactive and pragmatic
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.
