please apply in Engish and use bullet point in your CV

Country Manager /Technical Sales Manager Food Ingredients m/f/m for Italy

• for a well-known European Food Ingredients Distributor
• office-based Northern Italy
• Must have is a Degree in food technology​
• Must have is you know the Italian Food and Beverage industry
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Italian

Tasks

We are looking for a Country Manager Italy

you work 25% as Country Manager and 75 % as a Sales Manager with a passion for food technology and sales.

• You will be responsible for establishing of our business in Italy, overall market performance, and sales growth in the food industry sector.
• This includes not only an understanding of food technology, sales management, and logistics but also team leadership across functions (including government relations, partnerships, operations, and local marketing).
• As a Country Manager, you will not only ensure operational excellence but also have your finger on the local market pulse, identifying new opportunities for sales growth while building and maintaining important partnerships with food producers.

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Food Technology (must have)
• Minimum 3 year’s experience in food industry (production / sales)
• Ability to solve technological problems and the passion for developing food products
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills, highly organized, reliable, ability to motivate and guide employees
• Good negotiation skills, positive thinking
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Italian
• Prepared to travel
• Business acumen
• Skilled computer user

Responsibilities as a Technical Sales manager:

• Analyze market and product range of suppliers to find new potentials
• Create strong relationships with food producers
• Develop sales strategies for specified ingredients (business development)
• Visit customers in Italy, analyze their needs, create a value proposition
• Advice ingredients applications and develop tailor-made recipes for customers where required
• Attend production trials at customers / make small-scale trials in the application kitchen
• Make price offers / follow-up of projects & payments from customers
• Align sales strategy for suppliers’ product groups under the supervision of Springboard managers
• Check legal requirements (certification, registration, labelling, import)

Responsibilities as a Country manager (Director):

• Keep good relationships with our suppliers
• Control business processes within the company (logistics, contracts, administration, warehouse, usage of internal computer program)
• Financial control (payments, exchange rate, costs of the company)
• Coach and motivate employees
• Generate profit

Benefits

Working in an international team with lean structures

• Close cooperation with market-leading, innovative suppliers with excellent products
• Regular product and application training
• We offer an attractive compensation package reflective of your experience and qualifications, consisting of salary, vehicle allowance and business tools
• please apply in Engish and use bullet points in your CV
• u will decide the location of the new company to create