Area Sales Manager (m/w), Köln

Welcome at Saint-Gobain!

Saint-Gobain designs, produces and distributes materials and solutions which can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications.

Change the world – not on your own, but in a team that just pursued this mission for over 350 years. In one of the eight top global employer, one of the 100 largest industrial companies, with 170,000 employees and more than 39 billion euros in sales in over 60 countries.

Your mission

• Manage existing businesses / accounts
• Discover new opportunities and turn them into business
• Be a highly valued contact to customers (technical and commercial)
• Practice business related communication with the manufacturing sites
• Keep close contact with Customer Service, informing them about any agreements with customers and take care personally of outstanding issues
• Responsible for continuous development of new business
• Feed regularly Market and Product Managers with news from the market
• Take part of budget planning processes
• Secure sales according to budget and at the expected profit level
• Report to the Sales Director SiC Europe

Your profile

• Solid sales experience in industrial / technical markets
• University Degree in Material Science or in Economics is required
• Willingness to extensively travel with overnight stays
• Fluent in German and English
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Strong personality, self-motivating working style, team player and a sense of urgency
• Disciplined and well organized

Your perspective

• Challenging and exciting tasks in a dynamic and international environment
• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Attractive social benefits