Account Manager Benelux - Prepared Foods

Are you the master of your own time? Our account managers are!

As our new Account Manager Benelux for our Prepared Foods division, you’ll be Marel’s closest contact to our customers; you get to interact with them one-on-one, in person, at exhibitions, demos or other occasions. This allows you to analyze their needs and offer them the best possible solutions. That’s because you understand all relevant details of the customers process and of Marel’s top-notch solutions.

• Work in close collaboration withf Regional Sales Director, Account Managers, Industry Sales Managers, Partner Managers, and Regional Sales Operations
• Analyzing customer performance and needs, identify opportunities and translate this into proposals for solutions to the customers
• Building customer relationships by frequent customers visits and communication with different stakeholders.
• Drive the sales of complex solutions; justify their value and help increase Marel’s market share while meeting customer requirements
• Be responsible for realizing sales (targets in volume and achieving the best possible price and market share for complex solutions)
• Be responsible for visit reports, opportunity registration and follow-up (maintaining data in Company CRM systems). Collect & share information on competitors’ activities, installed base, requirements, and developments with internal stakeholders

What Kind Of Person Are You:

We encourage each of our 8,000+ employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcome new colleagues from all walks of life. You will recognize in yourself that you:

• You have a bachelor degree within a technical area (preferably mechanical engineering / food processing technology).
• Have previous working experience about 3 + years in a technical sales environment and you have the ambition to develop yourself further as a sales professional within a 1st class market leading company. Ideally you have experience within the machinery of food sector, but this is not a must.
• Are a “hunter”: pro-active, emphatic, energetic and sharp, result driven, independent and you have an entrepreneurial mind-set. You are down to earth and you have a pragmatic way of approaching your job and its tasks.
• Strong English and Dutch skills, both written and verbal.
• You are willing to travel ca. 35% of your time.

What’s In It For You

There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at Marel. You can expect:

• A challenging and rewarding opportunity to contribute to the success of our international projects.
• A healthy work-life balance with flexible working arrangements, you choose how and where you want to work!
• Opportunities for professional growth and development with endless possibilities to keep learning: access to LinkedIn Learning and Busuu language learning
• To get a career instead of a job. We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!
• Company car (available for personal use)

Who We Are

Marel is a global market leader producing high-tech process equipment for the poultry, meat and fish industries. In partnership with our customers, we will change the way food is processed and produced. Our vision is a world where quality food is produced in a sustainable and economically sound way. Our high-tech equipment and systems help food producers in all markets produce at peak productivity. We are approximately 8000 employees globally, have offices in 30 countries across 6 continents and a network of more than 100 agents and distributors.

Prepared Foods, one of RFS’s business groups, creates full line solutions from preparation till end of line for the ready to eat, ready to heat and ready to cook market segment. Our primary focus in convenience is on Petfood market, Potato & Appetizer markets, Plant based -, Sausage -and Burger producers.