SALES MANAGER PLASTICS – EASTERN EUROPE (M/F/D)

SALES MANAGER PLASTICS – EASTERN EUROPE (M/F/D)

Working at KRAHN means developing customers, suppliers and markets. Here you can be entrepreneur. Influencer. Expert, who shapes with vision and competence our marketing and distribution company for specialty chemicals. Together we want to create something concrete and good. This changes not only our environment, but also ourselves, enriching our private and professional future.

Our offer

• Challenging tasks in an international developing marketing and distribution company for specialty chemicals
• Performance-oriented teams that take on responsibility and focus on transparent communication
• Fast decision-making due to flat hierarchies
• Open working atmosphere, shaped by drive and creativity of each of us
  Individual career opportunities
• Attractive benefits, such as Multisport card and health programs, language classes, accident insurance, holiday allowance

What awaits you

• The position focuses on selling additives for the plastics industry in the Eastern European region and Greece
• Proactively visit accounts in plastics to sell products within employees defined territory
• Prospect, develop and close opportunities
• Proactively collaborate with the head of sales and end users on opportunities and account strategies within the territory
• Manage appointments and opportunities by documenting needs and developing relationships with users, influencers, and key decision‑makers at each location
• Visit customers 3/4 days every work week
• Geographical region: Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia,

What we expect

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, engineering, or a related discipline preferred
• Technical/professional plastics experience in outside sales is required. B2B sales experience is strongly desired
• Knowledge of plastics processing (thermoplastics, thermosets, and PVC) preferred
• Strategic and solutions-oriented selling skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels
• Experience giving successful and meaningful customer presentations
• Proficient listening and questioning abilities
• Self‑motivated, well‑organized, and able to manage time and territory
• CRM database knowledge
• Desire to join industry organizations
• Up to 80% travel required (3/4 days per week)
• Valid driver's license and passport required

Your career at KRAHN CHEMIE

We bring together the things that are stronger together: markets with innovations, processors with manufacturers. Questions with answers. With headquarters in Hamburg and locations in nine European countries, we offer you added value beyond familiar limits.