European Sales & Marketing Director Colours and Food Ingredients m/f/d

European Sales & Marketing Director Colours and Food Ingredients

Location: Northern Italy on site

This is a Business 2 Business job, please apply only if you have experience in Flavours, Colours, Extracts, dried Fruit and Vegetables and other value added Food Ingredients

Role

The Director of Sales & Marketing develops and directs all sales, marketing and business development activities in Europe.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing a sales and marketing plan to achieve set growth targets.
• Developing and managing an effective sales and distributor team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Successful track record of building and growing sales and profitability in a food ingredient business (e.g. Flavours, Colours, Extracts, Powders).
• Closing sales and satisfying customers at senior levels including Directors, VPs and owners/executives.
• Highly self‑motivated; able to operate autonomously in a dynamic environment.
• Strong fit with the Company’s culture and unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Bachelor or Master’s degree with a preference for sciences or food technology / ingredients and/or MBA.
• Fluent in English, Italian and other European languages are an asset.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a B2B sales environment within the food industry.

• This is a B2B job.
• This is no job for candidates coming from FMCG, Horeca, Hotelf or Restaurants.