Junior Sales Manager France

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

In the role of Junior International Account Manager you will work in the French market. You will report to the Senior International Account Manager (France) with whom you will work together on several Key accounts in order to ensure annual turnover and profit growth. Some are existing accounts that you will gradually take over with guidance of the other sales colleagues.

In parallel, you will be responsible for seeking new business opportunities.

• Manage and develop strategic key accounts across retail and food service customers
• Develop, maintain and continue an assigned market sector (France) including maintaining and developing accounts (current accounts, leads and prospects) by keeping up the range of products and regular customer visits / participating in fairs
• Build and deliver business plans with customers
• Monitor performance (sales, margins, profitability) and drive corrective actions
• Ensure excellent execution in collaboration with supply chain, NPD, technical, and finance
• Identify and develop new customers within retail and FSI channels
• Expand product listings and distribution across existing and new clients
• Drive pricing strategy and margin optimization
• Provide market insights and competitive analysis
• Collaborate cross-functionally in an international environment

• Master’s degree in Business or equivalent
• 3–5+ years of experience in FMCG, ideally with exposure to both Retail and/or Food Service / B2B channels. Grocery is a plus.
• Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Office (must) and SAP (preferably)
• Proven experience in key account management and business development ("hunter" mindset)
• Must have strong presentation & interpersonal skills to build long lasting relationships in an ever changing environment towards (international) customers, suppliers and colleagues
• Positive attitude, energy to work and drive business with other departments
• Result- and solution-oriented attitude
• Have the commercial instinct to always be looking for opportunities
• Be flexible to work in an ever-changing environment
• Have analytical skills
• Be willing to travel abroad when occasionally needed
• Excellent mastery in French and English (verbal and written). Dutch is a plus.
• Driver’s license required

• A dynamic and various working environment
• Exposure to both Retail and Food Service FMCG channels
• High level of autonomy and ownership
• International environment with strong growth ambitions
• Competitive compensation package

Princes Foods strives to have Inclusion & Diversity among colleagues representing the community as we believe strongly that it will benefit our company to bring it to a higher level. We believe that everyone should feel welcome within our company regardless of their gender, cultural background, sexual orientation or age. Therefore Princes Foods has an active Inclusion & Diversity group to make sure that everyone is included.