Push your limits at Kühne + Heitz
Trader Sales Manager Europe
Kühne + Heitz
Working at Kühne + Heitz requires an entrepreneurial mindset. In a way, you are running your own business. Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for seizing opportunities and maintaining relationships from start to finish. You can easily adjust your negotiation style and communication according to your client or supplier and their cultural background. That’s how you create a real favor factor! You not only want to score, but also analyze the associated risks. And you understand you always need another person to close a deal. In our team you will have plenty of room to implement new ideas and initiate plans. Which perfectly fits with your entrepreneurial and commercial spirit. You also possess a healthy dose of guts and good business sense. Which means that sometimes you also sell “no” when it’s better for the customer.
This is your challenge as a trader in Europe at Kühne + Heitz :
As a trader Europe, you will be responsible for selling meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and/or dairy to existing and new customers, such as wholesalers, distributors, cash-and-carry’s and catering in the sales area Europe.
You deal with:
- Relationship management and expanding sales with existing and new products with customers.
- Maintain intensive telephone and personal contacts with your clients.
For this you will travel about 4-5 weeks per year and visit important trade fairs. - Stay ‘on top’ of market changes and development to keep ahead of the supply and demand game. Both in terms of buying and selling.
- Develop new marketing channels. By developing new product-market combinations.
You possess:
- Minimum college work and thinking level, for example gained through a commercial or
- business education.
- You are entrepreneurial, commercial, decisive and decisive.
- Excellent command of Dutch and English, both oral and written.
Speaking additional languages will certainly come in handy. - Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Up to about 5 years experience as a trader, account manager, sales manager.
Experience with food is a plus.
Why Kühne + Heitz?
- A salary that will make you happy.
- A leading position within a flat organization with a friendly corporate culture. Think short lines (together at one big desk), after-hours drinks and sitting at your desk in jeans.
- Excellent benefits including:
- A profit-sharing scheme
- A non-contributory pension plan
- A company car, depending on your entry level and/or growth.
- A versatile position with a lot of freedom and independence.
- The best coffee in Dordrecht.
- A nice working atmosphere with room for development.
- Communal lunch in our Grand Café.
Who are we?
We are a renowned international trading company that has been in the food business since 1974.
Worldwide, we distribute meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and dairy to manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers in more than 100 countries.
Our customers can count on quality and service of the highest level at the most competitive price.
We do this with a team of some 35 colleagues, including 20 commodity traders and 10 logistics staff, plus the back office, from our head office in Dordrecht.
Our working atmosphere is best described by the old Rotterdam expression ‘don’t bullshit, but clean up’.
With a wink, by the way, because we like to make time for a good joke.
Interested? Please email your CV to Marloes Verschoor at marloesv@knh.nl.
For information or questions, you can also call her at: 078-6321226.
Employment: 37.5h (full-time)
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