SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences 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!Our client is a professional Food, FMCG and Healthcare organisation, based in Bruxelles-Capitale Belgium.

The Company

This client is a multinational with a focus on health, a better future and continuosly improving ingredients. They provide nutrition to the most fragile groups, so it's key to offer the best of the best.

Role Description

The Retail Lead drives the development of the entire product portfolio in the retail channel. Therefore, at least 8 years of experience in food or fmcg sales in a retail environment is key. You develop a long-term vision in line with the ideology of the company, report this to the Sales Director Belgium and drive the entire channel.

Responsibilities

- Propose and validate strategic direction on Retail Channel development with Sales Director, CODI and Central Teams
- Provide customer understanding, capture insights, new trends, opportunities and threats
- Push strategic alignment and partnership with Retailers
- Co-build and challenge Brand Strategies by integrating upstream customer strategies or channel specific insights
- Lead 2 Key Account Managers to develop strong Business Development Plans with retailers
- Lead the Sales Force team to perfect implementation of plans at stores level
- Recruit, Coach & Develop a high performing team.

Requirements

- MSc in Economics or similar
- 8+ years of experience
- 5+ years of food/fmcg experience
- Strong, proven leadership skills
- Able to translate field experience to strategy
- Fluent trilingual in French, English, Dutch

Other information

This client has a phone and two in-person rounds, which you will enter after being qualified by the recruiter. Please get in touch below for any questions you might have. We can help you best after we've received your CV, so we understand your background better.

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.