Title:  Department Manager Food & Beverage Industry DACH

DKSH’s purpose is to enrich people’s lives. For nearly 160 years, we have been marketing, selling, and distributing high-quality products and brands for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Through our Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology, we deliver sustainable growth for our partners. Headquartered in Switzerland, DKSH is publicly listed and operates in 36 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. We employ over 29,000 specialists and produced net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2023.

In 2022, DKSH acquired Georg Breuer Food Ingredients (GBFI), a service provider for food manufacturers. With GBFI's expertise as a functional plant-based ingredient specialist and innovator for over 25 years, the synergy created strengthens DKSH Business Line Food & Beverage Industry as a leading food ingredients distributor in the beverage, dairy, confectionery and bakery, nutritional supplements, processed food, and food service industries. 

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving business growth? Are you ready to lead and manage the overall sales operations of our Food & Beverage Business Line in the DACH territory? If you thrive in a dynamic environment and possess strong leadership skills, we invite you to be part of our team as a Department Manager Food & Beverage Industry DACH, based in Königstein im Taunus.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and control the overall operations of the DACH food business for DKSH
• Proactively identify and develop new business opportunities to increase our market coverage 
• Coordinate and provide leadership responsibility for the sales teams in Königstein im Taunus, Hamburg, Austria and Switzerland (direct reports 5x)
• Manage the DACH product portfolio
• Regularly visit clients and key customers 
• Represent Business Line interests within the country organization and participate in the Country Management Team
• Develop strategies for local marketing initiatives such as digital campaigns, customer events, and exhibitions.
• Organize regular business review meetings with Sales Managers 

Your Profile

• Degree in Food Technology or Science or similar related discipline, with relevant sales and leadership experience with a distributor or a manufacturer in the food ingredients industry
• Broad network in the food ingredients industry in DACH region 
• Empathic, highly motivated and target driven with high time-management skills
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a variety of sales, negotiation and persuasion skills
• Excellent and fluent writing and speaking skills in both English and German

Our Offer and Promise to You

• Flexible time arrangement and partially work from home possibilities (up to 40%)
• Company car in accordance with our Company Car Policy
• Performance-related remuneration with attractive company pension provision

Why It’s Great to Work at DKSH

At DKSH, we are driven by a purpose that goes beyond the ordinary: enriching people's lives. Through the products and services we provide, DKSH positively impacts millions of lives everyday. Join our team where entrepreneurship meets flexible work arrangements. Take the leap and start a journey where you can grow and make a difference!

Have we sparked your interest?

Then we look forward to receiving your application documents via the following e­mail address:

anastasia.kamschilow@dksh.com

Please attach an English CV / resume as part of your application.
 
DKSH GmbH

Anastasia Kamschilow, Associate HR Director

Baumwall 3, 20459 Hamburg

Learn more about working at DKSH: www.dksh.com/careers

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