Sales Manager, Phosphates & Specialty Ingredients, Food and Petfood

🕒 September 5

🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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GFIC Geiger Food Ingredients Recruitment & Consult.Ing

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

GFIC Geiger Food Ingredients Recruitment & Consult. Ing is a boutique recruitment consultancy founded by Alfred Geiger in 2006, located in Germany. The company specializes in recruiting and consulting for the food and beverage industry, particularly in areas like food ingredients, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. With over 35 years of experience in the industry, GFIC offers personalized recruitment services, including full-time, interim, and C-level positions, serving clients globally.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a targeted sales strategy for specialty food ingredients across the BENELUX countries • Identify and qualify prospects among pet food manufacturers and human food processors • Build and manage a robust sales pipeline • Deliver technical presentations and conduct on-site or virtual product trials • Collaborate with R&D to adapt formulations, drive innovation, and support new product development • Manage pricing negotiations, contract proposals, and order forecasting • Achieve or exceed sales targets • Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and regulatory changes • Translate market and regulatory insights into actionable plans • Own the end-to-end sales cycle from lead generation and product specification through commercial close • Serve as the technical representative, translating ingredient science into customer value propositions

🎯 Requirements

• Please apply only if you have a good network in the BENELUX Food and Pet Food industry • Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Food Science or related discipline, or Master Butcher • Minimum of 5 years’ technical sales or application support experience in the food ingredients industry • Experience working for a producer or distributor • Demonstrated success selling functional ingredients, including phosphates, hydrocolloids, emulsifiers, acids, proteins, fibres, or yeast • Deep understanding of ingredient functionality in meat processing, spice formulation, baking, and potato applications • Ability to engage R&D, production, and procurement stakeholders • Ability to manage a remote sales territory, including self-motivation, strong organization, and virtual collaboration • Willingness to travel 30–40% for customer visits, industry events, and cross-functional meetings • Fluency in German and English; additional language skills are a plus • Knowledge or background in technology is an asset • Experience with phosphates and related projects should be described in the cover letter

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours • Competitive base salary plus bonus structure based on sold tons and margin • Company car