Job Description
Our client is a family business with about 3000 employees worldwide uniting tradition and progress and along with a great deal of dedication commitment and competence inspiring customers around the globe with firstclass baking ingredients and malts. They are hiring a Technical Sales Manager (in Bakery field) in the Greater Toronto Area.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Report to the head office in Brampton Ontario
- Establish develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
- Identify new business opportunities in the bakery sector
- Define appropriate product and service solutions for existing and new customers
- Provide ideas about innovative raw materials & technologies that will make IREKS products stand out in the market
- Support customers with new product implementation on processing lines
- Active participation in trade shows providing customers with technical product expertise and samples
- Grow expertise in handson bread baking for product demonstrations
- Ensure confidentiality on formulas and intellectual property
- Ensure a functional link with the specialists at the headquarters in Kulmbach/Germany
- Develop a strong pipeline of opportunities and submit reports in accordance with required details
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong communication skills customer oriented strong industry network
- Good interpersonal skills
- Team player selfmotivated with a positive attitude driven to achieve assigned sales targets
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Strong understanding of the bakery wholesale and industrial manufacturer bakery segment
- Bilingual French/English is an asset
What you need to do now:
- Minimum 5 years of technical sales experience in the bakery sector with primarily industrial bakeries. A degree as a master baker is a plus - Valid driver s license & Must-Have: Well-maintained and reliable vehicle - Willing to do travel approximately 50%