Sales Director CEE- Private Label

- Willing to work outside of Warsaw (on the production site, ca. 150km from Warsaw, with one day of home office)
- Build a strong and efficient regional (CEE) sales team
- Develop the current business both in volume and profitability
- Identify new opportunities and turn them into profitable business
- Manage the customer relationship (contracts, NPD) very independently (regional customers) as well as in close collaboration with Headquarters (regarding international accounts)
- Establish and develop a business plan
- Seek out and target new customers and new sales opportunities in private labels
- Monitor, analyze sales and market trends while being autonomous regarding independent Clients
- Clients' negotiations in collaboration with the production plant in order to optimize costs and industrial feasibility related to the market/Client(s)
- Responsible for managing and controlling the sales budget
- Administrative & logistic follow-up
- Provide leadership to the day-to-day operations of the sales department, while maintaining focus on the company's strategic goals
- Follow-up & realization of existing and ongoing export contracts in the region CEE
- Interaction & animation of the wholesalers and their sales force

- Sales, marketing and management educational background (graduate level)
- At least 5 years of working experience in the FMCG sector, out of which 3 to 5 years required experience as a key account or sales manager responsible for private labels
- Experience from an international group or from a Polish company (with past experience within a multinational company)
- Business Developer, strong negotiator and entrepreneur minded
- Leader, with coaching aptitudes to teach teams
- Rigorous, autonomous and well-organized
- Mobile (up to 50% of time in travel)