description du poste

Ash Ind France SAS

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an Account Sales Manager to join our Personal Care and Home Care business in France. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company Ashland Specialties France. This position will report to the Regional Sales Manager.

**This role is a remote position to someone living in France**

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage personal care & household business & customers’ interface in France
• Identify & deliver new opportunities to grow business in the designated territory
• Apply Ashland strategy at the accounts under her/his responsibility.
• Delivers the business plan for the assigned territory and accounts: sales volume, revenues, and profits.
• Proactively seeks information about Customers strategy and product launches.
• Coordinates activities related to the projects with the Customer on the products application and development.  Closely cooperate with Technical Experts to make sure project meets Customer needs.
• Contributes his/her insights and guidelines to the regional strategy and account plan. Implements accordingly.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Degree in chemistry or related discipline
• 3-5 years sales experience in Personal Care industry
• Strong team player, good interpersonal skills, enthusiastic, positive attitude and self-motivated
• Negotiation skills, quick issue solver
• Fluent in French, English, both written and spoken
• Excellent communication skills
• Open for travelling up to 30-40 % time.
• Driving license

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• 3- years in B2B sales
• Skilled in different software packages (Office, CRM, Powe rBI, etc.)