- Location
- Italy
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- full-time
- Department
- Executive
- Seniority
- Director
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Master
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Category
- Sales
- Role type
- People Manager
- Environment
- Office
- Source
- JOIN
Overview
This role involves leading all sales, marketing, and business development activities for food colours across Europe. The Director will develop sales and marketing plans to achieve growth targets, manage sales and distributor teams, and build relationships with senior-level customers including directors and VPs. The position requires extensive B2B sales experience in the food ingredients industry, particularly with flavours, colours, extracts, and value-added food ingredients. Candidates must have a bachelor's or master's degree in food technology or related field, fluency in English and Italian, and minimum 10 years of B2B sales experience in the food industry. This is an onsite position located in Northern Italy.
Description
- **Geiger Food Ingredients Recruitment & Consulting**
is searching for an international Food Ingredients Company with a global Network of Plants, Sales offices, R&D Centres the
**European Commercial Director for Food Colours m/f/d**
**Location: Northern Italy onsite**
**This is a Business 2 Business job, please apply only if you have experience in Flavours, Colours, Extracts, dried Fruit and Vegetables and other value added Food Ingredients**
**Role**: The Director of Sales & Marketing develops and directs all sales, marketing and business developmentactivities in Europe
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
· Developing a sales and marketing plan to achieve set growth targets.
· Developing and managing an effective sales and distributor team
## Tasks
**Qualifications and experience:**
· Successful track record of building and growing sales and profitability in a food ingredient business (e.g.
Flavours, Colours, Extracts, Powders)
· closing sales and satisfying customers at senior levels including Directors, VPs and owners / executives
· Highly self-motivated; able to operate autonomously in a dynamic environment.
· Strong fit with the Company’s culture and unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction
## Requirements
**Qualifications and experience:**
· Bachelor or Master’s degree with a preference for sciences or food technology / ingredients and/or MBA
· Fluent in English, Italian and other european languages are an asset
· Minimum 10 years’ experience in a B2B sales environment within the food industry
## Benefits
- This is a B2B job
- This no job for candidates coming from FMCG, Horeca, Hotelf or Restaurants
Please apply in English
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About Geiger Food Ingredients Recruitment & Consulting
GFIC is a boutique recruitment consultancy founded in 2006, specializing in food ingredients recruitment across multiple sectors including starch, glucose, sweeteners, flavours, and pharmaceuticals.
