Junior Area Sales Manager Coatings

What it's like to work here

Take the next step in your career as Aea Sales Manager Coatings at Holland Colours, where you’ll be at the forefront of exploring untapped markets. As a professional in the industry, you're no stranger to the process of transforming resin into paint, coatings and sealants. With a keen eye for customer needs, you develop tailored account plans to create new opportunities. You know how to acquire new leads and turn them into customers.

What you'll be doing

Main Work

As Area Sales Manager Coatings for Holland Colours, you'll be hunting new opportunities in the Benelux, UK and Ireland in the coatings market. With a 'hunter mentality,' you'll navigate building prospects into long-term partners. Your industry knowledge will be key in introducing our innovative solutions to new clients. With your expertise, you’ll be initiating new product introductions and guiding customers through the sales journey. Your responsibilities will include:

Acquire new leads and turn them into customers;

Develop and maintain a strong network with customers and potential customers;

Initiate technical work for product approvals;

• Co-ordinate pricing, risk management, overdues, complaint handling;
• Maintain CRM system with customer communications, visit reports, sales funnel data and sales opportunities.

Your talent

In this pivotal role as Area Sales Manager Coatings at Holland Colours, collaboration is key. You'll be joining forces with our technical team, a group of colorant experts and innovators who understand the intricacies of coatings down to the molecular level. With their expertise at your disposal, you'll have the tools and resources needed to turn visionary ideas into market growth. This is what you’ll need to bring:

1-3 years of sales experience with a focus on B2B transactions;

A profound understanding of market trends in the coatings industry;

A true sales hunter mentality to hunt new prospects on a daily basis;

Willingness to travel upto 50% to engage with clients and stakeholders. This position is based in Apeldoorn and you will need to travel to clients in Benelux, UK and Ireland on a regular basis.

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What's in it for you

Our offer

Being Area Sales Manager Coatings at Holland Colours is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to make a significant impact. You'll contribute to shaping our business and to the future of our industry. For your dedication we offer:

A shareholder participation model as you become part of the Holland Colours family;

• Opportunity to shape an unpenetrated market, supported by a well-positioned company with robust products and infrastructure;
• Freedom, agility and speed to make impact with visible results in a fast moving company;
• The ability to work from home or other locations (but based in Apeldoorn);
• Pension plan, end-of-year-bonus, performance bonus and collective health insurance.
• Work that matters

Celebrating Excellence: A World-Class Workplace

We've won the prestigious "World Class Workplace" award. This shows our commitment to fostering a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment. This award, was given to us by Effectory, an independent firm specializing in employee feedback research. This underscores the success of our efforts in creating a workplace where innovation thrives, and every team member feels valued and empowered.

About Holland Colours

Our employees are co-owners of the company. This is rooted in our culture: employees are engaged and in it for the long term. With this employee participation model, we are independent, and we can guarantee that we are living our purpose: helping our clients find a better way by working together. When things don’t go as planned, we always find new ways of working together. That is why we value accountability. If you take responsibility for what you do, things will work out in the end. You may work with a lot of freedom because we trust each other as colleagues. Decisions are made quickly because we are a relatively small company. This helps when we want to move fast in the changing additives and colorant industry.

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