Sales Manager

INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT & HR EXPERTS ACROSS THE PLASTICS, PACKAGING, SPECIALITY CHEMICALS, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOPOLYMER, FOOD ADDITIVES & INGREDIENTS, ENERGY AND RECYCLING SECTORS SINCE 1975.

Sales Manager UK and EU

Home-Based UK

Client Overview:

Listgrove is working with a leader in polymer compounding, who have partnered with a producer of bio-based additives.

The aim of this collaboration is to drive a more sustainable product range into the plastics industry focusing on its recyclability.

Role Overview:

Collaborate with the existing sales teams across both companies, to support and drive ongoing projects, whilst identifying new business opportunities. Targeting brand owners to elicit their buy in and help promote the flow of business down to the manufacturers

Responsibilities:

• Drive both current and new sales opportunities within set budgets set out by the company.
• Work closely with the technical teams, to enable the timely completion of projects.
• Build and manage a pipeline of potential customers, tracking progress to conversion.
• Network at conferences and trade shows to generate leads and drive sales.
• Confidently engage with customers from both SMEs and blue-chip companies.
• Factor in production costs, gross profit, freight, storage, credit insurance, and finance charges.
• Target 15-20 customer meetings per month through face to face meetings and online media.
• Lead a quarterly meeting to review pipeline and sales activities.

Person Specification:

• Proven experience in direct B2B sales.
• Accomplished sales person driving new business.
• Experienced selling polymers, polymer additives, polymer compounds
• Fluent in English
• Comfortable with overseas travel.
• Strong communicator.

For reasons of better legibility, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female and diverse (f/m/d) is avoided. All personal designations apply equally to all genders.

For UK roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the United Kingdom. Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.

To apply please contact Jason Hutchison

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