EMEA PRODUCT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Foodingredients Oil, Fats, Cocoa

• Please describe in you Cover Letter your experience with Oil, Fats, Cacoa and Food Ingredients
• This position is a succession role for a long‑standing employee who is retiring. A transition phase is planned. The candidate would start as an application technologist in our laboratory and would be trained for the new role by the current job holder.

GFIC is recruiting

for an international value added Food Ingredients Distributor working in Europe, West Asia and Africa the

• acting as their key cont act person for strategic & company-wide topics
• ensuring the achievement of their objective s
• keeping them informed (potentials, projects & activities, sales data, market studies, …)

• food technologist (university degree) must have

• min. 10 years of experience in food ingredients

• deep technological application -know -how in the food segments /categories

• sales experience preferably in multicultural geographical zone (Mostly EMEA)

• communicative, proactive, analytical thinking , supportive skills and dedication to sell added value ingredient specialties

• Management, leadership & team player skills

• perfect English , prepared to travel (travel ratio min. 30%) .

• Location Europe , home office based

• we are accepting only applications via the link in the ad! only in English of course!

• Must have for this positon is a Degree in Food Technolgy

• acting as a coach for strategic matters : sharing information about principals , organization of training , discussion of quarter -plans, analyzing market trends , global or local customer plans.
• Insuring sales support tools are used properly (Reporting tools, Monitoring tools, CRM, Lab usage) .
• supporting them in daily business : technical advice, price negotiations with principals , joint customer visits .
• recruitment & training of new Sales Managers in coordination with Country Manager .

• anticipating market trends and developing tools to follow these trends , working closely together with principals, Sales Managers and our internal application centers /Labs
• analyzing our portfolio and if needed - searching and checking new potential principals
• developing internal structures to fulfill the requirements of our principals (reporting structures, central stock, central sampling, technical service, labs …) in coordination with the Board

• reporting to CSO
• functional lead of Sales Managers
• direct reports : Supplier Service Manager