Job Description

Date Posted: 2009-11-04 Ref. JB1350319

International Sales and Marketing Director
Accountability Recruitment Ltd

International Sales and Marketing Director (International Location - Negotiable)

This is your chance to make your mark, forging a worldwide market for this new brand.

Our client is an International organisation with ownership of a prestigious date farm in Medinah, Saudi Arabia producing world class fully Branded, Organically Certified Ajwa dates. They require an International Sales and Marketing Director to drive strategy, development, contacts, management skills and sales both within Europe and Worldwide.

You will be a highly experienced individual with previous sales and marketing expertise within the field of international Food and Beverage export. You will be responsible for building a strong, motivated sales team that will be located around the world, driving the sales of this product within a large high-end client base.

Your product is renowned as “best in class”, if that is how others would describe you, then we need to hear from you.

The International Sales and Marketing Director Role:
•Build an International team of motivated, high performing staff, each with regional responsibility
•Formulate an international business development strategy, devising sales targets and communicating with your sales team
•Develop best practice guidelines for your sales team, ensuring exemplary relationships are maintained both internally and externally
•Perform sales forecasting, resource allocation and ensuring responsibility for key account development
•Overseeing contract negotiation and ensuring maintenance of sales volumes

Skills

The Person:
•Previous strong international sales and marketing background, with Food and Beverage focus
•Proven track record of people management and driving sales
•Strong customer centred focus and impeccable relationship building skills
•Ability to understand and manage sales across countries and continents
•Exemplary communication skills, preferably fluent in a number of European languages
•Current, strong, existing network of potential wholesalers and boutiques
•Focused and organised, a strategic thinker

Please visit www.mynewrole.co.uk to apply to Accountability Recruitment Ltd (based in London, UK) for this Sales and Marketing Director position or apply in confidence via email with CV and details of your current remuneration to Accountability Recruitment consultants

Accountability Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency with regards to Permanent Vacancies and as an Employment Business with regards to Temporary Vacancies.

Thank you for applying to Accountability Recruitment Ltd.

Company Profile

Accountability Recruitment Ltd is an international recruitment consultancy that specialises in providing senior individuals to prestigious organisations within construction, commerce and industry, private banking, the third sector and to family offices.

At the heart of our business is a commitment to offering a bespoke, individual service, tailored to the unique requirements of both candidates and employers. We conduct specific searches for the right people.