Key Account Manager – Benelux- Scandinavia
Netherlands | BredaDo you have a background in Sales, food technology or functional ingredients with a strong commercial drive and do you want to work in a dynamic, international environment where sustainability is in our DNA?
As an Account Manager you are part of the commercial team, you work closely together with our Agro & Purchase -and Product Development department providing technological and application-oriented support to customers.
- You will build and maintain our relationships with (key) accounts, realizing margin growth.Our client segment varies from beverage to dairy and savory business.
- You manage the sales budget for your customers, create account plans and take care that forecasting is up to date to enable our factories to run their operations efficiently.
- You will be responsible for securing new accounts by market research in collaboration with business intelligence and a close collaboration with Döhler Group.
- You will negotiate prices, payment terms, contracts and other sales conditions.
- You work closely together with our product development team to initiate and coordinate test phases and application research and write content for new applications.
- You organise proactive meetings for our customers with a focus on innovation.
- You will report to the Sales Team Lead North Europe.
- A Has or Economic related Bachelor’s degree and a strong commercial drive and/or proven experience, about 5 years, in a commercial role within the food industry (B2B).
- Experience in the fruits and vegetable industry is a plus, as well as sales experience in beverage, dairy and ice cream sectors.
- Strong & proven commercial and customer orientation skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, other languages are a big plus.
- The ability and willingness to travel around 20 – 30%.
- Your strengths lie in relationships, you are persuasive, creative and entrepreneurial but most of all, you are a team player.
- Ease in MS Office applications to a good standard especially PowerPoint
A challenging international working environment where you can broaden your horizon, gain enormous experience in the industrial processed food sector and utilize your commercial drive until the full extend. A welcoming sales team where you will be well trained and guided in your onboarding. You will receive a Fruit2You training in which you will gain extensive product knowledge and visit some of our production sites. We offer a place where successes and challenges are shared, where we flourish together. SVZ is a producer of healthy ingredients, produced in a sustainable way that taste great all over the world. A good compensation package with an end-years gratification & bonus scheme and extra free holidays (+5 ADV days) and also the possibility of a hybrid way of working, as well as a company car is part of our package.
You can send your application to Dorien Dhont, Manager HR Business Partnering, [email protected] For more information you can visit our website www.svz.com.