Sales Account Manager CEE, DACH & BENELUX, Personal & Home Care

Come join the skilled team at Sensient Technologies. We are collaborative and hard working. We solve tough problems. And we will be better with you. 

Hard work lives here. So does high reward. If that’s you, let’s talk!

We are looking for a Sales Account Manager to join our Personal Care & Home Care team.

This job will report to the Sales Manager. This is a home-based role located ideally in Poland, or close to an internaltional airport in France, since the role will require intense travelling (approx. 60%) to visit customers, support your distributors, and to connect with the central services headquartered nearby Paris.

What you'll do:

• You will primarily manage a wide network of distributors, setting targets and strategies, keeping them updated on all our activity, conducting joint meetings with their main customers, providing up-to-date training, and attending togheter local exhibitions and events. With the support of your Sales Manager, you will establish strategies to secure growth, and optimize & expand our distribution network. 

• As a Sales Account Manager, you will visit customers across your territory with distribution partners. Target are Personal Care & HII segments in Central Eastern Europe and exclusively HII (home care, industrial & institutional cleaning) in DACH & Benelux. You will create opportunities and deploy necessary actions, both technical and commercial, to secure growth. You will create and follow up a diversification program to secure activity through all our areas of expertise.

• As part of a dynamic team, you will collaborate with internal teams across different departments that will support and ensure your success.

• As part of your multiple activities, you will report in timely manner, on common platforms of CRM, communicate accordingly with our different support services and participate regularly in meetings to follow up your projects and needs.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in a technical or business field. 

• Working experience in B2B technical products (personal/home care, chemicals, etc.) that reflects high productivity of measurable results. Sales professionals but also technical applicants will be considered -if no sales experience you’ve got to prove a drive to win, a curious mind and be customer focused.

• Experience managing resouces, ideally distributors or other channel partners.

• A strategic approach to developing and winning business being savvy at selling technical, value-added solutions to a professional audience.

• Fluency in English; in addition to Polish or German. 

• Be a good relationship builder with excellent communication and negotiation skills, along with the drive and passion to win in a dynamic and fast paced environment. 

What you’ll get:

• An excellent salary and uncapped bonus program, together with other benefits.

• A comprehensive onboarding and training. This secures a solid foundation to understand the organization and its products, technologies, systems, supporting functions and culture, which enhances your ability to quickly become productive and integrated into the Sensient organization.

• We will support you in working cross-functionally with our R&D, Commercial, Operational and Service teams.

• Opportunity to develop and grow within an international Group at business unit level, or outside within our other divisions 

About Sensient 

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.

About Sensient Personal Care and Specialties Market (PCSM)

Sensient Personal Care and Specialties Market (PCSM) develops, produces, and markets ingredients and high-quality colors for the personal care and cosmetics industry, as well as Specialty Colors for use in household and industrial cleaners, specialist coatings and agriculture product applications. 

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