Sales Manager

Job description

The Sales Manager lives and embraces growth, helps accelerate performance and creates value in a designated area. Your focus is on expanding the business in North America and Europe (the UK and Mediterranean region excluded). You will develop and execute the sales strategy in order to grow the business at current customers and new accounts by implementing the Value Drivers (pricing-rotation-distribution). You are eager to close deals, actively hunt for business and are persistent and persuasive to reach your goals. To be successful you invest in the solid interpretation of business intelligence and the input of business partners and co-workers in the field. You spend about 15 percent of your time developing new business in countries or regions that have been identified as growth regions. The Sales Manager is an expert in route-to-market analyses. United Dutch Breweries is looking for an independent and venturous Sales Manager with international expertise to build existing and new business in a variety of countries. The role requires between 20/25 percent travel abroad.

The organisation offers

An international Sales Manager position at an export-driven beer supplier
Being part of a solid, entrepreneurial, no-nonsense team
Between 20/25 percent travelling
A job with personal freedom and extensive responsibility
Hybrid working, fulltime (90% is negotiable)
Personal and career development

Candidate profile

5+ years of sales and/or export experience in an international/cross-cultural FMCG environment
Expertise in sales of value brands
Experience in setting up and building business and customer relationship management
Entrepreneurial, commercial mindset, self-starter, flexible
Affinity with branded beverages, preferably beer
Fluent in English, other languages are an advantage

Competences

Entrepreneurship and commercial thinking
Networking and relationship building
Flexibility
Initiative, self-starter
Persuasiveness and impact

About the company

United Dutch Breweries trades a broad range of beer brands in 100 countries worldwide. The company owns, among others, the brands Oranjeboom, Craft Nation, Breda Bier, Atlas and 3 Horses, and sells these to distributors and retailers worldwide. Production of the different brands is outsourced to a number of West European breweries that produce the beer to the recipes of United Dutch Breweries.

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