PRODUCT & INDUSTRY MANAGER (m/f/d) Marketing & Import of Chemical Raw Materials (m/f/d)

**WE ARE MOVED BY CHEMISTRY & PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE – LET’S BUILD IT TOGETHER!**

Import and distribution of chemical materials for customer industries throughout Europe is competence and business of our privately owned group. We are growing on our own. Our multinational team - currently situated in fifteen locations in Europe and Asia - belongs to the best performing sales organizations of our multinational and local clients. Having a healthy financial basis, we continue to expand our personnel organization and offer attractive positions at several European sites.

## Tasks

**Your Business and Area of Responsibility**

• **As part of our Product Management Team, you will act as a key interface between suppliers, sales, and the market; contributing to the development; with a focus on performance & specialty chemicals for CASE (Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants & Elastomers)**.
• Handling customer inquiries and providing competitive offers through your colleagues in Sales.
• Defining pricing frameworks and supporting the achievement of sales targets through proactive commercial planning.
• Building and maintaining strong relationsships with international manufacturing partners, including negotation of purchasing conditions, and securing availability of products.
• Own sales activities with selected customers.
• Mutual P&L responsibility within your team for your product range with a clear focus on profitable growth.
• Monitoring volatile petrochemical markets, gathering and analyzing market intelligence from multiple sources, preparing of market reports for suppliers and guidance of your colleagues in Sales with up-to-date information.
• Occasional travel activities to suppliers and selected key customers.

## Requirements

**Your Profile & Talents**

**You are looking for a chance to grow in international business and to work in a company where performance, initiatives, teamwork as well as loyalty are rewarded!**

• Professional experience in industries such as **coatings**, **construction chemicals,** **adhesives**, **elastomers or related sectors**, combined with solid product knowledge in areas such as **amines**, **epoxy resins**, **reactive diluents**, **curing agents**, **UV monomers**, **cellulose ethers**, **catalysts**, **or similar chemical product groups**.
• You have a commercial or technical (preferably chemical) education and have been working 5+ years in B2B sales, ideally in specialty chemicals / chemical distribution.
• You have a strong commercial mindset paired with analytical skills and a solid understanding of pricing, cost calculations, and margin management.
• You have strong communicative skills and a business-oriented mindset. You find the right words in friendly, but sometimes also tough negotiations with suppliers and customers. You establish trustful relations.
• You have the ability to gather, interpret, and translate market intelligence from various sources into actionable insights.
• You are confident in working with CRM systems and MS Office; you understand figures and statistics.
• You are a team player with a proactive and success-oriented attitude.
• You have a hands-on personality and enjoy taking over responsibility.
• Business fluent in English, additional language skills are a plus.

## Benefits

**Our Offer**

• Target gross annual salary excl. bonus starting from EUR 50.000 - overpayment depending on qualifications and experience.
• A responsible position & the chance to grow in an interesting, versatile, and dynamic job within a multicultural, open environment.
• Your chance to develop in an organically growing group with an open minded company atmosphere.
• A modern and spacious office in the infrastructure of Urban Garden MyHive am Wienerberg, with restaurants & shops nearby.
• Fringe benefits, such as subsidized lunch, company events.
• A secure employment in a financially sound international company.

**We are looking forward to get to know you!**

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