Sales manager for Europe

HKScan Export is looking for

Sales manager for Europe

As a sales manager you are in the front line of HKScan export. In this role you can contribute to strategic targets of HKScan by strengthening our market position in its key export markets and enabling us to grow as versatile food company.

Execution of sales is underlined, as well as your passion on FMCG.

As a sales manager you will develop new sales channels in Europe and easily win new customers. You are analyzing, planning, and executing activities in selected countries. Your toolkit includes HKScan’s proud heritage of pure Nordic taste, with social and environmental receptibility. It includes interesting assortment of products and concepts from Finland, Sweden, and Baltics and Poland

Your key tasks as Sales Manager will be:

• Sell meat- and plant based consumer goods to selected European markets. You will expand our sales to new markets and elevate our current sales among existing customers. To accomplish this, you will need to:
  • keep up an inspiring dialog with customer
  • analyze and prioritize potential businesses by mapping markets and customers
  • create and implement business plans for prioritized customers, including product-, brand- and concept adaptations for chosen markets;

We expect from you:

• 3+ years’ experience in branded international sales or marketing in the FMCG
• sales mindset and willingness to go the extra mile for the customer;
• ability to deliver tangible result;
• a proactive and innovative mindset, and an instinctive feel for future consumer and market expectations.
• up to date skills on social media will be considered as an advantage;
• fluency in written and oral English; other language skills are a major advantage.
• a Bachelor’s degree in commercial education

We offer you a new position in a growth-driven international food company with an interesting job description and a wide spectrum of responsibility. You will be working in close co-operation with marketing and category management of several countries

You will report to VP Export, Petri Haaparanta, and preferably to be located in Turku.

For more information, please contact:

Petri Haaparanta, VP Export, tel.040 58 46420, on 13th June, 3:00-4:00 pm. If you have questions concerning the recruitment process, please contact Tarja Laine, HR Manager, tel. 040 867 4440 or tarja.laine@hkscan.com.

Please submit your application and CV with your salary request by 30th June 2022 by e-mail to recruitment@hkscan.com