Sales Manager

Job description / Role

You will have overall responsibility for sales, forecasts and expenses. Your success is measured by your ability to improve sales of products in the region and includes maximisation of sales efficiency performance and continuous monitoring of forecast and expenses as well as customer sales potential. You and your colleagues evaluate the business development and point out focus areas to assure continued development of the business. Another area of responsibility will be to develop new customers and make sure that the relation to existing customers’ is strengthened with the aim to promote sales.

Requirements

Candidate should have at least eight years management experience from a sales environment within the FMCG industry. You are ambitious and high-spirited and know how to inspire and motivate your colleagues to perform high-class results, and you know that the very best results are created through a high service level. Besides good communication skills and open and extrovert manners, you possess an excellent ability to make solid and long-lasting relations with customers.

About the Company

Puck®, Lurpak®, The Three Cows®and Castello® – names like these make us a vital, natural part of modern life in over 100 countries around the world.

At Arla, we do so much more than make some of the worlds favorite dairy products. We make healthy taste delicious, mornings worth getting up for and family dinners unforgettable. Being part of all this and one of the biggest high-tech dairies in the world, means that youre not just realising your potential. It means that you play a vital and natural part of everyday life, making a difference to both consumers and colleagues around the world.

Arla is a cooperative owned by 13,500 farmers from seven different countries, and as a cooperative company, our mission is to secure the highest value for our farmers milk while creating opportunities for their growth.

We believe that milk is nature\\'s best food product, and we are proud to process milk into yogurt, cheese, butter, milk powder and many other dairy products to the benefit and delight of people in more than 100 countries. We are the worlds 5th largest dairy company with operations in 30 different countries and in 2014 we produced around 25 billion milk glasses. Lining up all the glasses would be enough to circle the Earths equator 47 times!

At Arla we are all a part of a global team with great ambitions, challenging tasks, and plenty of development opportunities. We combine traditional craftsmanship and world-class technologies, making sure we consider nature in every aspect of our supply chain from the farm to your kitchen. By pursuing growth for Arla we share a higher purpose of making the world a healthier, more inspiring place to wake up to, and being a part our company means, that youre not just learning special skills. Youre creating special moments.