PRODUCT & INDUSTRY MANAGER (mfd) Marketing & Import of Chemical Raw Materials (mfd)

WE ARE MOVED BY CHEMISTRY & PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE LETS BUILD IT TOGETHER!

Import and distribution of chemical materials for customer industries throughout Europe is competence and business of our privately owned group. We are growing on our own. Our multinational team - currently situated in fifteen locations in Europe and Asia - belongs to the best performing sales organizations of our multinational and local clients. Having a healthy financial basis we continue to expand our personnel organization and offer attractive positions at several European sites.

Tasks

Your Business and Area of Responsibility

• As part of our Product Management Team you will act as a key interface between suppliers sales and the market; contributing to the development; with a focus on performance & specialty chemicals for CASE (Coatings Adhesives Sealants & Elastomers).
• Handling customer inquiries and providing competitive offers through your colleagues in Sales.
• Defining pricing frameworks and supporting the achievement of sales targets through proactive commercial planning.
• Building and maintaining strong relationsships with international manufacturing partners including negotation of purchasing conditions and securing availability of products.
• Own sales activities with selected customers.
• Mutual P&L responsibility within your team for your product range with a clear focus on profitable growth.
• Monitoring volatile petrochemical markets gathering and analyzing market intelligence from multiple sources preparing of market reports for suppliers and guidance of your colleagues in Sales with up-to-date information.
• Occasional travel activities to suppliers and selected key customers.

Requirements

Your Profile & Talents

You are looking for a chance to grow in international business and to work in a company where performance initiatives teamwork as well as loyalty are rewarded!

• Professional experience in industries such as coatings construction chemicals adhesives elastomers or related sectors combined with solid product knowledge in areas such as amines epoxy resins reactive diluents curing agents UV monomers cellulose ethers catalysts or similar chemical product groups.
• You have a commercial or technical (preferably chemical) education and have been working 5 years in B2B sales ideally in specialty chemicals / chemical distribution.
• You have a strong commercial mindset paired with analytical skills and a solid understanding of pricing cost calculations and margin management.
• You have strong communicative skills and a business-oriented mindset. You find the right words in friendly but sometimes also tough negotiations with suppliers and customers. You establish trustful relations.
• You have the ability to gather interpret and translate market intelligence from various sources into actionable insights.
• You are confident in working with CRM systems and MS Office; you understand figures and statistics.
• You are a team player with a proactive and success-oriented attitude.
• You have a hands-on personality and enjoy taking over responsibility.
• Business fluent in English additional language skills are a plus.

Benefits

Our Offer

• Target gross annual salary excl. bonus starting from EUR 50.000 - overpayment depending on qualifications and experience.
• A responsible position & the chance to grow in an interesting versatile and dynamic job within a multicultural open environment.
• Your chance to develop in an organically growing group with an open minded company atmosphere.
• A modern and spacious office in the infrastructure of Urban Garden MyHive am Wienerberg with restaurants & shops nearby.
• Fringe benefits such as subsidized lunch company events.
• A secure employment in a financially sound international company.

We are looking forward to get to know you!

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