Accountmanager Africa
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.
This client is a beer export company who export their products to many parts of the world. The company has a rich history and has several offices in other continents. Because of growth of the African market they are looking for a new accountmanager.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
In this role you will be responsible for several countries in Africa and ofcourse your own sales budget. You will be the contact person for existing clients and build on these relations. Knowledge of the African culture and speaking French will be important for this job. Next to existing clients you also will be actively looking for new business opportunities. The goal is to build strong long term client relations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for the accounts in your region.
- Creating new business opportunities
- Report to the African Sales Director
- Analyse market trends
- Build strong long term relations
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of Bachelor degree in Commercial Economy/ Sales Marketing / Business Administration
- 6-10 years of experience in a commercial role within the food industry or FMCG
- Proven sales track record with a foreign company
- Experience in Retail
- Dutch/ English fluent and good business knowledge in French
- Africa experience or affinity with the culture
Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Vincent van Straten.
