Now Hiring - Manufacturing Sales Account Manager East Coast, Natural Ingredients in New York, NY

In this role, you will maintain and grow relationships with large customers, while achieving an assigned sales and profit growth goal. You are expected to retain existing business, while pursuing profitable growth opportunities in assigned customer accounts.

This means that you will be responsible for selling and supporting Sensient's complete products and services, focusing on customers with high-value, strategic growth opportunity. For best results and long-term client relationship building, you will be travelling throughout your assigned territory to meet your customers face-to-face.

For this diverse and highly interesting sales role, we are looking for results-oriented sales people, who:

strategically direct business growth and development

are entrepreneurial minded

can coach and mentor a sales team

hold their sales team accountable

drive continuous improvement

communicate effectively

take prudent business risks

treat others with respect

operate safely and responsibly with a focus on integrity

To be successful, we give you all the support you need from your direct supervisor, who is our Sales Director Natural Ingredients North America.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

We could list a long overview of tasks and responsibilities. But you are an experienced sales person and know all this, correct? So let's summarize the essentials:

For you, being in sales makes you tick: you love being in front of the customer, delivering value added advice and support and - with your excellent product knowledge and customer facing approach - you know how to win people and place deals to generate revenue, margin growth and long-term customers.

Your qualitatively high commitment to your job travels ahead of you and customers cannot wait to talk to you when they have an issue, or a new challenge to solve.

Of course you are very much aware of the fact that Sensient is a multinational company, where administrative follow-up, reporting and giving presentations in- and externally is part of this job and is your measurable success within the organization. You do not need prompts for this part of your role - you just get it done to show your performance and to support your Sales Director in his reporting line to upper management.

To be able to build the necessary relationships in this role, we ask you to show us in the interviews that you are a rounded and well-developed communicator with great interpersonal skills, used with customers as well as internally, when dealing with cross-functional departments and our sales support teams.

When you become a Sales Account Manager at Sensient, you will receive an eight-week induction/training time, in which we will train you on our products and services, systems, processes, and we will get you in touch with our internal support and technical teams. Only then, you will be in charge of your geographical territory and customers.

We would love you to bring some background to support your success at Sensient:

Ideally, a college degree in a related field. Relevant working experience may substitute the degree.

You are an experienced a Sales Manager in a B2B sales environment, preferably within food/beverage, flavors, specialty chemical, or other value-added ingredient industry.

To manage a client from A-Z, you bring outstanding project management skills and PC proficiency

Sounds like a great deal? It is! Apply to this online posting and you will see we are true to our word.

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