Requirements: English
Company: Planet Pharma
Region: Mons , Wallonia
Job Title: Technical Sales Specialist BeNeLux
Location(s): Belgium - Remote (Field Based)
The main territory to be covered is Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg, with collaboration with colleagues in Northern Europe.
Responsibilities
- Compete for all food sales opportunities throughout the territory.
- Build and maintain strong customer and distributor relationships.
- Constantly attempt to secure business in new accounts and follow customer account receivables.
- Provide accurate monthly forecasting, updates, and next steps within SFDC on a weekly basis, as well as timely, accurate, and competitive pricing to customers, and submit internal approvals.
- Attend seminars, exhibitions, and demonstrations to promote business.
- Maintain knowledge of Perten products, as well as knowledge of competitors products, prepare, document, and update presentation aids accordingly.
- Develop close working relationships with internal parties: Field Applications Specialists and Field Service Engineers.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Science, preferably in Chemistry or Food Science.
- Strong experience selling within the food industry or lab instrument sales.
- Experienced sales star who is results-driven, energetic, effective, a self-starter with a strong motivation for sales.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, able to excel in an international sales environment.
- Channel management/distributor sales experience.
- Independent, with good organizational and team-working skills, driving you to continuously seek new opportunities.
- Flexible, able to communicate with colleagues and customers, willingness to travel across the BeNeLux and DACHP territory.
- Desire to learn, grow, and take the lead in a sales role within a fast-paced matrix organization.
- Willingness to travel is essential up to 50%+.
- Current driving license.