Sales Manager Transportation Filtration Torino

Sales Manager Transportation Filtration
Torino
Piemonte, Torino

We are looking for a **Sales Manager **for our Transportation Filtration Sales Team in EMEA.

**Main purpose of the job

Responsible for sales, market development and customer relations management within the EMEA market

**Key responsibilities

- Accountable for the commercial success of sales in the region/area of competence

- Ensure compliance with Ahlstrom and Division sales strategies, policies and guidelines

- Provide customer and market insight and build growth strategy and implementation plans

- Define and execute regional sales strategy

- Continuously seek ways to create new business

- Ensure consistent achievement of key performance indicators (measured through growth, profit, revenue, efficiency KPIs)

- Implement global sales and organization actions and activities in accordance with Division strategy

- Cooperate to establish annual sales targets and build the sales budget

- Manage financial performance within the region/area of competence

- Work closely with our own logistics and technical / development teams and those of the customers to ensure a profitable growth of the business

- Sistematically build new growth opportunities

- Be knowledgeable in customers' activities in terms of payment, ability to pay on time and credit history

- Monitor sales and profitability performance against plan

- Manages receivables, past due amounts and finished good stock

- Reports sales volume and sales activities on a monthly basis to business units

- Ensures that proper sales processes and procedures are followed, including terms and conditions, Customer Contact system, consignment programs, exclusivity arrangements, and warehouse programs

**Required experience and skills

- University Bachelor/Master degree in marketing, economics or equivalent

- 5/10 years of sales, product or business management experience

- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Creative thinking and technical capability to come up with new ideas

- Strong problem solving skills

- Good leadership skills

- Able to develop close networking relationships at all level of organization, in different languages and cultures

- Excellent organizational skills

- End-To-End Process Understanding

- Availability for travelling extensively - more than 50% of the time

- Business Environment Understanding

- Decision Making

- Strong drive for delivering results

- Languages: Fluent English; German is preferred.

Other language skills are an advantage

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