Regional Account Manager Foodservice North/Brussels

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Your role        
As Regional Account Manager Foodservice (focus: Public & Health) North / Brussels within Vandemoortele Professional, your objective is to expand and deepen Vandemoortele’s regional presence by hunting new prospects and co-developing our customer’s business. Meanwhile, you take care of our company’s and segment strategy and our must-win battles. You step up to a more concept driven collaboration and seek proactively new business opportunities within and outside the existing customer and product portfolio. You will be the ambassador of our segment approach and bring added value to your contacts at various levels, ranging from operators to facility management, dieticians, purchasing, and general management.
You operate within a wide scope of customers and business partners consisting out of Public & Health clusters, mainly in elderly care, hospitals and schools in your area.

Your key responsibilities:

• Business Development
  • You are ambitious and always on the lookout for new business opportunities. You dare to jump and show accountability accordingly.
  • Focus on driving both volume and profit.
  • Focus on bringing added value and make a difference in the market.
     
• Account Management
  • Customer centric and able to prioritize your actions based on (y)our commercial strategy.
  • Proactively translate market and customer data into actionable insights and are able to consolidate these into coherent account plans and joint business plans.
  • Have a natural flair for building long-term customer relationships and know how to navigate your customers contact matrix framework.
  • Always have sustainable and profitable volume growth in mind, whilst delivering against short term budget targets.
  • Strong negotiator with a focus on value creation.
     
• Be part of the Vandemoortele teams
  • Have a winning mindset.
  • Able to gain (cross departmental) internal support for your initiatives.
  • Open, positive-minded and communicative teamplayer.
  • Able to interact and work both on strategic as well as operational topics (forecasts, orders, invoices and complaints).
  • Willingness to succeed and grab the opportunities in the market.

What’s in it for you? 

• You will join our big little family: Our associates are the beating heart of our company – they bring the flavour to our organisation. We cherish each member, prioritising their well-being and supporting their professional journey. 
• We value you as a person: At Vandemoortele we value each one of our associates and recognise their unique contributions to team successes. You will have flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home 50% of the time. We also invite you to join our sports and wellbeing activities! 
• We care for your future and we support your professional journey: We believe in the power of our associates and the value of their actions and support their career aspirations by offering internal mobility and promotional opportunities. 
• We make products for you to love: We are a team of passionate food enthusiasts. In our mission to shape a tasty future we strive to create a wide range of food solutions that connects people, cultures and traditions. You can kickstart your day with a delicious croissant fresh out of the oven and enjoy tasty food in our company restaurant. 
• Easy to reach: Our HQ is located close to a bus stop and highway exits. Want to come by bike? Lease a bike at Vandemoortele!

Are you the one we’re looking for? 

About you:

• You combine ambition and passion for result with integrity.
• You are eager to learn and to be developed.
• You embrace and live by our corporate values of Cooperation, Ambition & Respect.
   

And your experiences:

• You hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent through experience.
• You have (commercial) experience within the food/FMCG industry.
• You combine analytical skills with a problem solving mindset.
• You have relevant IT skills: mainly Office but also familiar to work with CRM-tools.
• You can express yourself fluently in Dutch, French and English, both written and orally.
• You have knowledge of or affinity with public and health organizations.

Join us in making sweet memories!
We're looking forward to welcoming you to our delicious journey!
Submit your updated CV and compelling cover letter (optional) highlighting your relevant experience and motivation.
For questions or additional information, mail us: gwenn.vandereecken@vandemoortele.com
  
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