For our entity in Morocco, we are looking for a Sales Manager Performance Materials Engineering Plastics NWA to join our sales team.

The position will be based in Tangier, Morocco.

Functional / Operational tasks:

• Responsible for the Performance Materials Engineering Plastics business in North-West Africa acting as a First point of contact for BASF
• Develop our business with existing customers
• Hunt for new business and customers
• Collect relevant market Intelligence and trends as well as customer needs
• Leads pricing negotiations
• Drives relationship Management (All Levels and functions)
• Supports customer homologations and technical visits.
• Follow-up and tracking of customer technical projects
• Close contact with all Relevant Key Accounts

Other Tasks:

• Reporting activities
• Applies Best Sales Practices

Interaction with others:

• Internally: Marketing, Technical Development, Technical Service, Commercial Management, BU Management, Order management and Planning, Legal Department, Customer service, Credit Risk Management, Quality, Product management
• Externally: All local assigned customers, Suppliers, Associations and other Stakeholders.

What we expect:

Education: Education & training required
plus additional time-extensive job-related training including formal examination (e.g. PhD, BS - MS, MBA)

• University Degree in life sciences, alternatively Mechanical or Industrial Engineering,
• + A master degree in Economics, Marketing or Business Administration.

Working Experience:

• Breadth/depth of experience required
• Experience working with similar systems in a similar business environment
• At least 7 years of Sales and Technical service experience in Engineering Plastics Industry.

Industry and/or Country specific requirements:

• Location: Tangier
• Sales Meetings in North Africa and/or Europe

Technical & Professional Knowledge:

• Account Management
• Hunting / Business development
• Engineering Plastics
• Customer orientation and entrepreneurial drive
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Team oriented and willing to interact in multicultural teams

IT skills:

• Office knowledge

Language skills (level):

• Arabic (mother Language)
• French (mother Language)
• English (fluent)

What we offer:

Responsibility from day one in a challenging work environment and on-the-job training as part of a committed team.

Competitive compensation including attractive benefits as well as excellent career opportunities in an international company.