LANXESS

Sales Manager

LANXESS$95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Chemical, Rubber, or Industrial) or Chemistry
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience in a sales or account management role
  • Strong account management skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite, SAP, IBP, and CRM systems
  • Understanding of marketing principles including pricing strategy and margin calculation

Responsibilities

  • Manage personal sales and variable margin within designated regions
  • Ensure effective accounts receivable management for clients
  • Develop new business opportunities while maintaining existing customer relationships
  • Conduct customer visits across the US and Canada to promote sales portfolio
  • Collaborate with marketing, supply chain, procurement, and production departments
  • Assist in raw material pricing negotiations with Procurement
  • Work with Controlling and Operations to find cost reduction strategies

Benefits

  • Exposure to a wide range of departments and operations
  • Opportunity for regional travel and customer engagement
  • Focus on new business development and strategy creation
  • Possibility to directly impact sales growth and profitability
  • Dynamic work environment in a well-established company
Full Job Description
Job Highlights

  • Responsible for their own sales (Sales & Variable margin) within a country , multi country or region, has a responsibility over their accounts, providing customers with commercial and technical information, to comit achievement (Top line & Variable margin) to meet BU Rhein Chemie's (RCH) goals and KPI set
    • Ensure a proper receivable management of their accounts
    • Manage accounts for BU RCH with focus on new business development and maintanance of actual customer sales
    • Visit customers across US and Canada to find prospects and represent BU RCH sales portfolio, with focus on existing and new customers
  • Interface with employees of following regional depatments marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, application technology, etc.
    • Internal liaison with various interfaces
    • Working with Procurement on raw material pricing
    • Working with Controlling and Operations on how to reduce fixed costs


Experience / Skills

  • B.S. or B.A. in Engineering (Chemical / Rubber / Industrial) or Chemistry
  • 3-5 years of experience in a similar role
  • Account Management skills
  • MS Office products, SAP, IBP, CRM
  • Marketing knowledge - Price build up / Margin calculation


Location Pittsburgh
Employee Type Regular

About LANXESS

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.8 billion in 2019 and about 14,300 employees in 33 countries. The company is currently represented at 60+ production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics.
Learn more about LANXESS
Size
14,886 employees
Industry
NASDAQ

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