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Country Manager Germany (Hertfordshire based)

Employer
Novo Executive Search & Selection Ltd
Location
Hertfordshire
Salary
Attractive Base Salary + Bonus + Package Benefits (Flex)
Closing date
2 Feb 2022

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Sector
Business Services, Transport & Logistics, Engineering
Responsibilities
Sales
Position/Level
Senior Management
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English, German

Job Details

Are you fluent in German OR perhaps even a German national and have sales / account management experience?

COMPANY

We are working with a fast growth distributor and stockist of niche components for the global aerospace industry that are looking to expand their client base and market share worldwide. Partnering with major OEM’s the company’s core activity is the buying, stocking and selling of an extensive range of specialised fasteners for the global aerospace industry.

ROLE

Reports to the Managing Director, developing and supporting customers worldwide. Core responsibilities entail:

  • Defining and implementing a sales strategy for the German market – their current clients and future target companies
  • Increasing sales year on year
  • Actively developing relationships with both customers and suppliers and keeping market databases up to date
  • Business and market understanding and development, including documenting market intelligence
  • Identifying and sourcing aerospace fasteners from a wide range of global suppliers
  • Ensuring quotations are produced in response to customer enquiries, followed up and analysed
  • Overseeing customer orders and monitoring their timely fulfilment

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

  • Fluent German language skills
  • Ideally, experience working with German customers
  • Solid commercial experience selling or buying – ideally both
  • Educated to tertiary level and/or relevant work experience
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills
  • High standard of numeracy & literacy
  • Ability to establish and maintain excellent customer and supplier relationships in an international sales context
  • Good organisational and time management skills
  • Strong computer skills across MS Windows, in particular Excel and Word

PROFILE/PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

  • Understanding of doing business in Germany
  • Positive, friendly, ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Responsive customer service mentality
  • Confident, pro-active with plenty of initiative
  • Meticulous attention to detail is imperative
  • Drive to get things right first time
  • Ability to multi-task and to handle widely-differing assignments
  • Ability to work under time pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Capacity to spot connections and opportunities to up/cross-sell

                                                                                                          

If this role is of interest, please send your CV to George Woodward at Novo Executive Search.

Company

New client enquiries- Dale Perrett (Director) dale.perrett@novoexec.com tel 01275 375588 Ambition, creativity, passion, intelligence. Novo is an executive research company which strives to provide its clients with the most innovative research methodologies in order to provide a competitive advantage through high value human resource and consultancy services.

Clients retain our services when they are looking to achieve positive change, growth and competitive advantage. Clients range in scale from start-ups, to privately-held family firms, and to the world’s largest corporations. Our consultants offer a professional service, working ethically and with integrity to establish strong relationships with clients. Novo invests heavily in training and development ensuring that all of our consultants apply the most reliable and effective tools and techniques for solving clients’ problems in a consistent manner. High staff retention rates enable Novo to form deep and lasting relationships with our clients and to become increasingly proficient at advising them. Our highly developed and sophisticated research capability allows us to quickly identify the best individuals in the marketplace for a specific set of defined core competencies. We work across a range of industry sectors, and have a broad understanding of the issues organisations face in each sector. In addition to understanding these factors, we recognise that there may be issues to overcome within the market, geography, culture and history.

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