Sales Manager, Food Industry, Leipurin Oyj
The most valuable customer relationships aren’t built on a single successful transaction.
We are looking for a candidate for our client, Leipurin Oyj: sales managers to be responsible for developing client relationships within the food industry in Finland. In this role, you’ll be at the heart of developing our clients’ businesses, combining your commercial expertise, customer insight and solution-based sales skills to build long-term partnerships.
At the same time, you’ll be part of the growth story of a specialist company with a history stretching back over a century. Leipurin is renowned for its deep understanding of its customers, its long-standing partnerships and its ability to combine expertise in raw materials, product development and commercial insight to help its customers grow their businesses.
Leipurin – your workplace
Leipurin is a Finnish food industry specialist with a history stretching back over 100 years, providing raw materials, solutions, product developmentand expert services to bakeries, the food industry and the foodservice sector.
The company operates in Finland, Sweden and the Baltic states. Its long history is combined with a strong focus on development, a customer-centred approach and an international operating environment.
As part of the Lantmännen Group, Leipurin draws on the international group’s expertise, networks and growth opportunities, whilst maintaining its agile and customer-focused approach. This combination offers an exciting environment for a commercial professional who wants to influence the development of both customers and their own organisation.
Leipurin Oyj has a strong and close-knit working community in Finland, where employees enjoy long careers and staff satisfaction is high. Work is carried out towards shared goals, with colleagues helping one another across job boundaries where necessary. The culture is characterised by a relaxed atmosphere, a ”can-do” attitude, a focus on results and mutual goodwill. This shared culture is nurtured with an entrepreneurial spirit, commitment and a desire to succeed together, whilst ensuring that everyone has their own clearly defined role, area of responsibility and personal goals.
More about the role
As Sales Manager, you will be responsible for developing client relationships within the food industry in Finland. The focus of your work will be on the long-term development of existing client relationships, but you will also grow the business by attracting new clients.
In your role, you will not simply be selling products, but acting as a partner in developing your customers’ businesses. You’ll work with Leipuri’s experts, product development team and international clients to develop solutions, helping your customers meet the demands of a changing market and evolving consumer behaviour.
Your key areas of responsibility include, for example:
- developing and growing strategic client relationships
- identifying new business opportunities
- building long-term customer partnerships
- developing solutions in collaboration with product development and international partners
- the commercialisation of new raw materials and innovations
- actively monitoring the market, the competitive landscape and consumer trends
- achieving sales targets and growing the business.
What makes this opportunity interesting?
You’ll have the chance to make a difference to our clients’ businesses
Success in this role is not measured solely by sales figures. You will build long-term customer relationships and play a part in developing solutions that support your customers’ business operations.
Expert sales at their best
You’ll have access to Leipuri’s extensive network of experts, its product development team and its international clients. You’ll work in an environment where expertise is shared and solutions are developed for clients through collaboration.
A stable company that looks to the future
Leipurin combines over a century of history, a strong market position and the growth opportunities offered by an international group. The company is constantly developing its operations and building for the future with a long-term perspective.
Opportunities for development
This role offers you the opportunity to develop your expertise in developing client relationships within the food industry and to grow as part of an international group.
What sort of skills are we looking for in you?
We hope that you already have solid experience of challenging B2B solution sales and the development of strategic client relationships. We particularly value experience in the food industry, raw materials and the ingredients business
We also hope that
- you are able to build long-term customer relationships
- you understand the customer’s business as a whole
- you work in a goal-oriented and proactive manner
- you enjoy working with various experts
- You communicate fluently in Finnish and English
- You have a driving licence and you’re also ready to travel.
What sort of colleague are you?
You have a genuine interest in your clients’ businesses and want to build long-term partnerships. In your approach to work, you are proactive, collaborative and goal-oriented. You listen carefully and see things through to the end. You enjoy achieving success together with the client and your own team.
Interested?
If this role has sparked your interest, we’d love to hear more about you.
As well as helping Leipurin Oyj find the right person for the role, we’d also like to help you assess whether this could be the next step in your career. We’d be happy to tell you more about the role, the organisation and the objectives associated with the position.
Pia Gran, Partner
pia@equitatalent.com
050 527 847
We review applications as they come in during the application period, so please don’t wait until the closing date if this role sounds like the right fit for you.
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