Push your limits at Kühne + Heitz

Kühne + Heitz

Working at Kühne + Heitz requires an entrepreneurial mindset. In a way, you are running your own business. This means you cannot be afraid to take responsibility. In fact, you like it!

You are responsible for the full process of your own market of customers and suppliers, from seeing opportunities to closing deals and maintaining relationships. You can easily adjust your negotiation style and communication according to your client or supplier and their cultural background.

Our business is competitive. A trader walks the untrodden paths. This takes guts and good business sense as well. This profession appeals to your intuition, requires a quick shifting mindset, tactical insight, and the right timing. Even though you operate independently, you understand you always need another person to close a deal. Colleague, customer, or supplier: you want to close deals that make every one of them happy. 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.

This is your challenge as a trader:

• Expand your business with existing and new products in your sales area Africa.
• Client management is one of your most important responsibilities. So intensive telephone contact with your clients is a daily task. For personal contact you travel about 4 to 5 weeks a year and visit important trade shows or exhibitions.
• Stay ‘on top’ of market changes and development to keep ahead of the supply and demand game. Because in the world of trading, change is the only constant.
• Initiating and realizing new sales channels, by developing new product-market combinations. 

This is why we are looking for you:

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience, in Economics, Business Administration, International Business or other relevant educations.
• You have 2 to 5 years of experience in and to Africa as sales manager, account manager, export manager or trader. Preferably in the food industry.
• You have an excellent command of the English and French language (speaking and writing). Speaking multiple languages is an advantage.• You have refined intercultural skills. You know when and how to adapt flawlessly to the habits and customs of your client.
• You have a competitive mindset and perseverance. In short, a winner’s mentality.

Kühne + Heitz offers you:

• A prominent position in an organization with an open business culture, such as short communication lines (we all work here – from management to traders – at one long desk), and in jeans at your desk.
• A lot of freedom and independence.
• A good salary, depending on your expertise and experience, and other benefits as:
• A profit-sharing scheme
• A non-contributory pension scheme.
• A company car, depending on entry level and personal development.
• The best coffee in Dordrecht.
• A brand-new office with a comfortable working atmosphere and the possibility to develop yourself with education and training.
• Daily lunch in our own ‘Grand Café’.
• Good accessibility; near the highway, parking across the street and close topublic transport.