Key Account Manager Food Ingredients for France

Vacancy Key Accountmanager France

You are seasoned in the food ingredients sales for child nutrition/infant food, petfood, medical nutrition and supplements. You’d like to leverage your knowledge of the French market and your current relationships with accounts to grow existing Key Accounts and develop new accounts in a self-reliant way and you’ll be joining an ambitious company expanding further into Europe with exciting plans!

Information about this position

The task of the KAM is to develop the French market including some key accounts that have a French origin or strong presence in France (Danone, Nestle, Isigny, Symrise, Lactalis etc.). Your focus is on growing the business in infant food, petfood, medical nutrition and supplements. It is a new role in an ambitious and growing multinational company that currently has several sites in Europe.

As the European office is located the Benelux, you will work from home or travel to meet with clients. There will be occasional travel to the office in the Benelux and head quarters in North America. You will be supported by a dedicated customer service representative. Your reporting line is to the Director Sales EMEA. The company language is English.

Your responsibilities

• Growing existing key accounts
• Developing the French market and bringing new accounts
• Collaborating in the European sales network
• Preparing and presenting key account strategies and budget status
• Presence at and strategies for international tradeshows
• To effectively use CRM
• Supporting marketing campaigns and developing customer specific presentations or product specific presentations.

Qualifications and personality

We strongly believe that you need to be entrepreneurial, tenacious, super energetic and dynamic to have fun and you also need discipline (to close and follow-up) to grow the business! A Bachelor education in commerce, business administration or life science is desired. Proven B2B experience in sales is required: earlier experience as Key Account Manager or Account Manager, Sales Manager. A person having sales experience within human and animal nutrition ingredients business. Earlier experience in an international company is a nice-to-have. Selling in France requires a native French speaker - you are fluent in speaking the language and writing at a professional level. A driving license is required.

Strong relationship building skills, negotiation and problem solving and collaboration skills. In addition, excellent communication and presentation skills are the basis for successful client management and longstanding customer relationships. A natural focus on customer service is required. Earlier experience or willingness to work independently and within a remote international team.

Information about the company

Our client has both European and North-American roots and has been in the business of food ingredients, healthy supplements and nutritional solutions for more than 25 years. The company blends and combines ingredients and has found niches to sell to pharmaceutical, medical, healthcare and food industry. The company is expanding rapidly in Europe and Asia with a strong foothold in the North Americas.

We offer you

We offer you a competitive base salary and an uncapped commission plan which will may bring your salary to extraordinary and high levels in the best case scenarios.

Please upload your CV in English. For more information

Drs. Helen Jong MBA

Recruitment Consultant+31 6 199 472 73

jong@my-recruitment.com