Key Account Manager, Food Colors Europe

As a Key Account Manager Food Colors
, you will maintain and grow relationships with customers to pursue profitable growth opportunities in assigned key customer accounts and new clients across Europe. This position is a home based role in Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, or Belgium, as the focus is on pan-European accounts.

• As a Key Account Manager, you will have the opportunity to sell our top-shelf, value-added food colors portfolio across all food & beverage categories.
• Drive strategic growth across pan-European key accounts by expanding existing customer relationships and penetrating new business opportunities within existing and with focus on new target accounts. Develop deep, multi-level engagement across regional operations, manufacturing sites, and product categories to identify, secure, and convert high-value project and sales opportunities while strengthening long-term account partnerships.
• Develop and execute account business plans that outline customer strategies, requirements, sales forecasts, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate and work closely with all departments, R&D, Manufacturing, Purchasing, QC/QA, and Finance, to ensure superior service for customers and prospects.
• Grow and manage a pipeline of projects, consistently following up to bring them to the finish line successfully.

• Relevant Technical or Sales experience in food B2B environment.
• A strategic approach to developing business and winning new accounts along with the drive and passion to win!
• Can navigate large accounts and partner with key decision makers for innovative new product development projects, which requires savvy at selling technical, value-added solutions to a professional audience.
• Fluency in English is a must. Additional European languages would be a plus.
• Ability to travel regularly across your territory and other EU countries to visit clients, and trade shows.

• Weoffer you comprehensive onboarding and training. This secures a solid foundation to understand the organization and its products, technologies, systems, supporting functions and culture, which enhances your abilityto quickly become productive and integrated into the Sensientorganization.
• Wesupport you in working cross-functionally with our R&D, Commercial, Operational and Service teams.
• An excellent salary, unlimited bonus earning potential, benefit offering and development opportunities.