Key Account Manager Wholesalers

Share our taste for life! We want to empower you to achieve this mission with us. We value you as a person and actively support you on your professional journey, while caring for your future. Join our big little family and let’s make products for you and the world to love. Do you share our taste for life? Your role: Vandemoortele Professional is part of the Vandemoortele family, and we work to support the growth of professional consumers in Foodservice & Specialty Stores. We propose smart solutions & a dedicated portfolio of tasteful products for our consumers. As Key Account Manager within Vandemoortele Professional, you are passionate to drive the customer’s business through the Vandemoortele product portfolio, and you behave as an “intrapreneurial” business developer. You seek proactively for new business opportunities outside & inside the existing customer portfolio; you step up to a more customer driven collaboration and you take care of our company’s strategy. Your customer portfolio is within the Belux professional channel (Foodservice & Artisan Bakery) and focussed on wholesalers. Your key responsibilities: to be a Key Account Manager: you put the customer growth pace needs at the first place, you build customer relationships through the contact matrix, and execute the joint business plan, you develop long term profitable volume growth, by negotiating the right counterparts whilst positioning Vandemoortele as the branded concept driven partner, to be an entrepreneurial Business Developer: you analyse market & customer trends and market data to set out the growth journey of your channel for the coming years, you build your business plan and you take ownership on delivery of results, you are empowered to be ambitious and expected to take ownership accordingly, to be part of the Vandemoortele teams: you express winning team spirit in a natural way, you gain internal support for (y)our customers: you collaborate within Sales team, with Marketing and with supporting functions, you apply good management of investments. What’s in for you? We offer you challenging work with a great purpose in an international company with a dynamic & ambitious culture and a collegial atmosphere. 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, prioritise their well-being and support 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 about your future and we support your professional journey: We embrace individual ambitions and encourage our associates to create a successful professional journey and entrust them to take ownership. 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. Are you the one we’re looking for? You have a Master’s degree in economics, Business, Marketing, etc..., You have at least 3 years of successful commercial experience as Key Account Manager in FMCG, and preferably expertise in professional area (Foodservice), You own analytical skills and problem-solving mindset, You are experienced in account planning & negotiation skills, You are able to express yourself in Dutch, French & English, both written & orally. You combine ambition & passion for result with a proactive approach Relevant IT skills: mainly Office but also familiar to work with CRM-tools, and You are eager to learn & to develop, and open for mutual honest feedback, You own interpersonal sensitivity & empathy and embrace our corporate values Last but not least: you are a food lover and/or passionate about food. 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: #ShareOurTasteForLife