Sales Manager CEE

This pioneering position is directly reporting to the Vice President Marketing. The successful candidate should work out of a home office with good access to an international airport. Frequent travels to customers/distributors in Eastern European countries, and to the organisation in Holland, Finland, and Germany are required. The percentage of travel is approx. 60%.

Responsibilities :
- To develop the sales of talc to industrial end-users in PL, CZ, SK, HU
- To strengthen the relationship with existing key accounts
- To acquire and develop new key accounts
- To steer and control the activities of distributors
- Budget responsibility for the territory

- Education in chemistry, material science or similar (e. g. paint engineer) on University level
- Minimum 5 years experience in B2B sales to the paint or plastics industry
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Business fluent in English
- Self-starter, independent, goal-oriented, team player
- Structured working style, able to follow formalised processes
- Computer literate : office software (Powerpoint, Excel, Mail, CRM etc.)