(vervuld) Retail Key Account Manager

Functieprofiel / Job details

Position

A team player with a strong personality

• Responsible for the daily relationship management and structural sales to retail customers.
• You are responsible for expanding existing and developing new concepts at retail customers.
• Responsible for customer acquisition in the "Category A" retail segment.
• Recognizing customer wishes and proactively responding commercially to them.
• You are well informed about the developments on the market.
• Responsible for tracking customer performance and deriving necessary measures for improvement.
• You work and communicate intensively with the sourcing, logistics, production, ripening, quality management, and accounting departments for the successful execution of our customer's requirements.
• Being able to work conceptually and structured.
• You work intensively with the customers, colleagues and provide input for Sourcing.
• You report to the Director of Sales.

Functie-eisen / Key aspects

Profile

Negotiator, communicative and positive mind set

Job requirements

• BsC (HBO) working and thinking level.
• Sales experience in fresh (fruits) is required.
• Experience with Retail and / or Category Management would be nice.
• Familiar with the dynamics and daily changing challenges within the fresh sector.
• The right competencies for creating targeted sales plans within the retail shelf.
• You master the English language verbally and in writing and if you also master German and / or Dutch that's also favorable.

Competences

• Analytical thinking and working.
• Customer oriented and environment-conscious.
• Solution-oriented approach and ability to find a compromise to satisfy the customer, and still match the company’s interests.
• Good social and communication skills.
• Result-oriented and tenacious.
• Proactive.
• Hands-On mentality.
• Team player.
• Self-starter and creative.

Bedrijfsprofiel / Company details

The Asica Group stands for a selected range of fruit from their own production. What makes the company different to others?

The DNA of an owner-managed company and the vertically structured organization. Access to all relevant components of the supply chain : with cultivation sites in Peru, Guinea and Italy as well as efficient teams for sales, production, sourcing, and logistics in Karlsruhe, Germany and Poeldijk, The Netherlands.

Enthusiastic about fruit, together the Asica Group stands for innovation, experience, and maximum flexibility : whether cultivation on the farms, ripening and packaging in the high-tech warehouses, or smooth delivery via the Europe-wide fresh produce network.

Together with the food retail customers, they develop effective solutions that are tailored to their individual needs, right from the start.

As one of the top 5 EU importers in their product categories, they are a large part of the well-known retail customers in Europe.

When passion grows succes

Aanbod / Opportunity

Offer

A dynamic and varied full-time job with opportunities at a reliable international organization. Excellent salary and other allowances in a small and stable team.

Partly working from a home-office position is possible. Employment conditions are appropriate to the position within this ambitious company.

Standplaats / Location

Location

ABC Westland in Poeldijk. Easily accessible from Den Haag, Rotterdam, Gouda.