Regional Field Sales Manager North

Are you ready for a fresh step in your career? Because we have ‘a sweet opportunity’ for you!

Regional Field Sales Manager North (Flanders - Brussels)

This is where we need you!

For more than a hundred years we have been inventing, making and selling the most fun and delicious sweets, under the famous family name Perfetti Van Melle. Of course we cannot do this alone, so we do it with more than 19,000 colleagues worldwide! Together, we ensure that you can enjoy our well-known brands such as Mentos (Gum), Fruittella, Klene, Look-O-Look, Chupa Chups, Stimorol, Bubblicious, Smint and Frisk every day.

This is what your fresh start as Regional Sales Manager will look like:

As Regional Field Sales Manager you will be part of the Sales BE department, part of our commercial organization in the Benelux. The department includes Key Account Managers, Sales Support, a Field Sales Manager, Regional Field Sales Managers, Sales Promoters, and Rackjobbers. You will report to the Field Sales Manager. As Regional Field Sales Manager you will be the inspirational leader for your Flemish team and drive them constantly to the next level. You will develop the specific needs of your team members and reinforce their strengths by using a tailored approach.

Sales BE is always on the move and continuously responds to the latest developments within FMCG. You will join a passionate team where the focus lies on achieving profitable growth, including strengthening our market leadership. To achieve this, we offer opportunities for personal and professional development and therefore Perfetti Van Melle is a great place to ignite your sales career. Have you always wanted to work with beautiful, strong brands? Join our team!

Your core tasks in a nutshell:

• You will challenge your team to use all available data and coach them in daily use of it in order to increase their performance.
• You will support in developing and implementing the current strategic vision.
• You will be responsible for data analysis from the Belgian field force and be the SPOC for reporting. Therefore you need to be in the office in Breda (every Tuesday).
• You will be responsible for achieving sales and distribution targets in supermarkets and convenience channels.

The ideal recipe for our Regional Field Sales Manager:

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Marketing or Sales.
• Proven track record with at least 2 years of People Leadership Experience.
• Proven supervisory skills.
• High level of empathy and shows ambition.
• Native Dutch speaking and a good knowledge of French.
• Strong experience in negotiating with the ability to build strong powerful customer relationships.
• Strong ability to effectively communicate with others to help make decisions when issues arise, ensuring the best interests of both the client and company are met.
• Strong ability to demonstrate a clear vision with the ability to effectively support and grow existing accounts, managing and developing existing relationships to mutual benefit.
• Driven to attain revenue/performance growth goals by staying customer-focused.
• Confident and process driven with a proven track record in problem solving.
• Preferably living in the region of Antwerp and/or max 1 hour from Breda.

The ingredients of Perfetti Van Melle, does it include your taste?

You will work at the third largest confectionery group in the world - and second in Europe. But we want to continue to grow and become the best at making candy, where we can use all the help of our colleagues!

We see our employees as the most important ingredient and therefore we have something for everyone:

• Empowering: Everyone has every opportunity to develop and make a difference. For example, we have a huge range of (tailor-made) training courses.
• Fun: Who doesn't actually dream of working at a candy factory? We would also like to maintain our family atmosphere, because that makes us unique and has brought us to where we are today. We do everything to make you feel at home with us. And, an annual CSR day to be committed to the community is also something we consider as important!
• Innovation: We must respond to the ongoing social debate on sugar and health, but also to deal with issues such as: environmental pollution, packaging and food safety. Enough challenges!
• Dynamic: It may sound cliché, but with branches in more than 30 countries, we are a dynamic and vibrant organization.

Got interested?

Are you developing a taste for it? Then we would like to meet you! Let us hear from you via the 'apply' button, and perhaps we will meet soon!