Sales Executive

Do you have the appetite to Grow Your Magic?

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1+1+, Puratos is growing rapidly with over 8500 employees in 74 countries, with a consolidated turnover of over €1,85 billion in 2017. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This, coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

Position Overview

Based at Chennai , India location, in order to strengthen our Sales team we are currently seeking an:

Sales Executive

(Chennai, India)

Reporting directly to the Regional Sales Head , the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible
• Maintain and develop sales within a segment (artisan, semi-industry, industry) for a specific territory, in line with company sales policy.
• Develop introductions of new products and concepts to existing and new Customers/accounts (portfolio) in order to grow the business.

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Key Accountabilities
• Manage existing customers' base.
• Enlarge customers' base through active prospection.
• Develop long-term partnership relations (internal and external). Therefore, inspire and coordinate teamwork with technical and marketing team (demonstrations...).
• Plan and organise daily activities according to the number of customers to visit and to the objectives to be reached.
• Report regularly your activities (visits, activities, results, market conditions, customers' product and service needs, competitive activities).
• Participe actively in sales meetings.

Profile
• First successful commercial experience, preferably in the food or in B2B environment (animation of commercial network).
• Product and range knowledge (technical aspects).
• Customer minded.
• Good language knowledge. Good communicator.
• Independent. Perservering person, not afraid of prospecting.
• Enthousiast, dynamic, flexible and result–oriented