European Commercial Director for Food Colours m/f/d

is searching for an international Food Ingredients Company with a global Network of Plants, Sales offices, R&D Centres the

European Commercial Director for Food Colours m/f/d

Location: Northern Italy onsite

Role: The Director of Sales & Marketing develops and directs all sales, marketing and business development activities in Europe

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing a sales and marketing plan to achieve set growth targets.
• Developing and managing an effective sales and distributor team

Tasks

• Successful track record of building and growing sales and profitability in a food ingredient business (e.g. Flavours, Colours, Extracts, Powders)
• closing sales and satisfying customers at senior levels including Directors, VPs and owners / executives
• Highly self-motivated; able to operate autonomously in a dynamic environment.
• Strong fit with the Company’s culture and unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction

Requirements

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree with a preference for sciences or food technology / ingredients and/or MBA
• Fluent in English, Italian and other european languages are an asset
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a B2B sales environment within the food industry
• This is a B2B job
• This no job for candidates coming from FMCG, Horeca, Hotelf or Restaurants