Key Account Manager (m/f/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Key Account Manager - Taste & Wellbeing - Your future role?

Come join an enthusiastic, innovative, and results-oriented commercial team, dedicated to driving growth, building customer relationships, and identifying business opportunities within the food industry. 

As a Key Account Manager at Taste & Wellbeing in Givaudan, you will be responsible for one of our largest local accounts and its international coordination. You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. You will operate at the forefront of innovation and participate in creating products that will find their way to consumers through supermarkets and foodservice channels.
We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and souls of consumers and customers. 

We are looking for an experienced and strategic account manager, with a good knowledge of the food & beverages industry. Previous experience with food, beverage, and/or nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical would be an advantage. You will be based in Dortmund, Germany, and report directly to the Commercial Director of Germany.
 
In this exciting role you will:

• Grow our business with one of our largest local accounts, being accountable for both top and bottom-line results.
• Establish and build customer relationships by combining a consultative selling approach with a good understanding of what truly drives our customers: going beyond the obvious to deliver a superior customer experience.
• Proactively identify and unlock new business opportunities, skillfully balancing a strategic and pragmatic approach.
• Closely collaborate with our technical Flavour Creation & Application and marketing teams to help projects successfully cross the finish line. It’s always a team effort!
• Be able to develop yourself in a dynamic environment, where creativity, business, and technology meet.

Sounds interesting?
It could be your perfect opportunity if you have a true passion for food and beverages, love staying ahead of the curve, and relish being a true expert in your field.

You?
Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn with teams as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.
 
Your professional profile includes:

• 8 or more years of successful sales, marketing, or customer relationship experience in food, ingredients, nutrition, or related industry
• University degree preferably in business or related technical field (Technical or Marketing/Sales)
• Demonstrated ability to effectively incorporate comprehensive knowledge and analysis into ADPs
• Self-aware with excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills
• Able to handle complexity, balancing quality and detail with pragmatism and hands-on problem solving
• Strategic and commercial insight, with the courage to take calculated risks to achieve growth
• Proficiency in German and English

 
Our Benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• Bicycle leasing
• 30 days holiday
• Access to the fitness center
• Massage at work
• Fresh bio-fruit, water/coffee/tea for free of charge
• And so much more

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.