Account Manager (Flanders)
Food & Beverage Division – CID LINES
ECOLAB
ABOUT US
Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
Ecolab believes that hygiene is health, and that health, in turn, is the key to more profitability and sustainability.
To come up with the right hygiene solutions, we build solid relationships with our customers, offering them continuous support. Not only do we offer a broad range of products for specific purposes, but we also give advice that’s fully tailored to each situation and every step in the chain.
With your career here, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow, shape your future, make an impact, and quickly see the
importance of your work. You will join a company with worldwide reach, a clear purpose and ambitious growth plans.
JOB DESCRIPTION
For our Cid Lines Food division, we are looking for an optimistic, action-oriented and relationship driven Account Manager.
After intensive training in our products and solutions, you will be responsible for the sales management of an assigned customer portfolio in Belgium.
Reporting onto the divisional manager F&B, you will oversee and drive growth across our existing network and build strong and long-term relationships with your partners with a Flanders – Belgium focus.
Utilizing your expert knowledge, coupled with your influencing skills, you will seek out opportunities for growth.
What You Will Do
- Own the commercial relationship with our Customers, with a Flanders – Belgium focus.
- Implement the retention and growth strategy, including planning and controlling.
- Managing the Sales Budget of your customer portfolio with an ambition and commitment to achieving double digit growth rates
- Build up and maintain regular personal contacts with key stakeholders at our Customers (purchasing, production, quality, safety, cleaning and hygiene operations, etc)
- Contribute to all divisional or cross-functional matters (pricing, marketing, sales promotions, events, seminars, product launches…)
- Report sales activities according to guidelines in CRM and monitor sales numbers.
- Coordinate the sales and demand forecasts.
- Technical support: answering all types of technical questions related to our products and solutions. For more in dept questions you coordinate with the support functions and in-house experts.
- Visit your customers production to create value, train stakeholders and develop opportunities.
- Commercial guidance such as follow-up on pricing, orders, together with our customer service etc.
To Be Successful, You Will Need
- Qualifications in business or sales, minimum a bachelor’s degree is required.
- 3 to 5 years of experience in a business-related environment
- An optimistic action-oriented person, that likes to hunt for new opportunities
- Excellent communication skills, to be able to coordinate actions with customers but also with internal support functions.
- To understand the distributor driven business model and how to grow distribution channels.
- To be fluent in Dutch. French and English are a great plus!
- Knowledge of the market is a nice plus.
- Engineer Background is a plus.
- Willingness to travel from home and flexible mindset to collaborate with the Food & Beverage customers
- Ideally based at driving distance from Ieper, Belgium.
OFFER
- Working in a dynamic and international company, where entrepreneurship, innovation, personal relationships, collaboration, and customer service are top priorities.
- Attractive and competitive salary and fringe benefits.
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