Regional Account Manager – Southern Poland

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Regional Account Manager executing sales plan for Advanced Polymer Solutions and managing customer relationships in Southern Poland. Focusing on sales objectives and cross-selling opportunities while ensuring effective communication.

Responsibilities:

  • Drives for results and achieves sales and pricing objectives in terms of contribution margin, volume, differential pricing, quality and services for the assigned customers.
  • Engages with customers across industries to actively develop color matches and masterbatch projects while ensuring high conversion rate to deliver on sales objectives
  • Develops and nurtures relationships with key stakeholders, externally with customers, and internally with Sales, Business & Product Management, Color lab, TS, CS and credit and establishes solid relationships with them.
  • Respects all policies and procedures and proactively “lives” them.
  • Monitors frequently DSO and ensures timely closing of customer claims.
  • Increases sales by promoting targeted products/applications and innovation, identifies and captures cross-selling opportunities, identifies and develops new customers.
  • Provides regular up-dates on market intelligence and competitive movements to the business in the respective area.
  • Ensures a consistent and effective execution of the business strategy at the customer and makes recommendations on potential improvements.
  • Ensures Value propositions of the represented Market Segments land at the customer.
  • Drives operational excellence in S&OP (forecasting) and Pricing Management.
  • Effectively troubleshoots customer issues and queries.
  • Frequently reports on main KPI’s.
  • Ensures CRM (Salesforce) is kept up to date with latest info on Accounts, DMU, Account Plans, Financial data, etc.
  • Identifies and develops new customers having masterbatch requirements.
  • Willingness to travel up to 60% of the time.
  • Reports to Sales Team Lead North-South or East region.

Requirements:

  • University or college degree in sciences or engineering preferred
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in sales, plastics industry preferred
  • Basic IT skills (Microsoft Outlook, Office Word/Excel, SAP R/3, SalesForce)
  • Driving license
  • Polish and English language skills
  • Negotiating skills - can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups.
  • Presentation and communication skills – Presents information in a simple way, clearly communicating the key messages and engages the audience
  • Product and technical knowledge – looks for opportunities to continuously learn about LYB products and services to be able to clearly articulate these in a strong value proposition for the partner entity.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary
  • Environment encouraging personal and professional growth
  • Rewarded for performance and results
  • Opportunity to work with specialists on innovative solutions
  • Extend national and international network