
Account Manager – Vehicle Care Division
Ecolab
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Ieper • Belgium
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About the role
- Own the commercial relationship with our distribution partners, with a focus on all over Europe.
- Implement the distribution strategy, including planning and controlling.
- Managing the Sales Budget of your customer portfolio with an ambition and commitment to achieving double digit growth rates.
- Build up and maintain regular personal contacts with key stakeholders at our distributors (purchasing, sales representatives, sales management, operations).
- Contribute to all divisional or cross-functional matters (pricing, marketing, sales promotions, events, seminars, product launches…)
- Report sales activities according to guidelines in CRM and monitor sales numbers.
- Coordinate the sales and demand forecasts with our distributors.
- Technical support: answering all types of technical questions related to our products and solutions.
- Train the sales forces of our distributors through training sessions and field sales coaching.
- Commercial guidance such as follow-up on pricing, orders, together with our customer service etc.
Requirements
- Qualifications in business or sales, minimum a bachelor’s degree is required.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a business-related environment managing international accounts, ideally acquired in a distributor driven sales environment.
- An optimistic action-oriented person, that likes to hunt for new opportunities.
- Excellent communication skills, to be able to coordinate actions with customers but also with internal support functions within Ecolab Company.
- To understand the distributor driven business model and how to grow distribution channels.
- To be fluent in English.
- Other languages are a great asset!
- Knowledge of the Vehicle Care market/ automotive market is a nice plus.
- Willingness to travel 50% of your time.
- Ideally based at driving distance from Ieper, so Benelux, North of France, West of Germany…
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Hard Skills & Tools
sales managementbudget managementCRM reportingsales forecastingtechnical supporttraining and coaching
Soft Skills
communication skillsrelationship managementaction-orientedoptimismcoordination
Certifications
bachelor's degree