[Full-time] General Manager/Sales Director at Mercuri Urval

Key Responsibilities:

Management of the Palsgaard China organisation
Distribution Network Development
Sales of ingredients to the Industries
Based in Shanghai
Operational Sales Management
Business Strategy

Palsgaard has decides to increase their activities in China, and to drive this process
Palsgaard has decided to employ an operational General Manager/Sales Director to be based in Shanghai.

The strategy is to set up a strong distribution network in China and fulfil the very ambitious sales and growth strategy for the market.

The products will be supplied by the Palsgaard factories in China, Denmark and Malaysia. In Shanghai Palsgaard has local storage, blending and packaging facilities.

Your Role

Reporting to the management in Denmark, it will be your job to manage the organisation, to identify potential distributors, negotiate agreements and to draft contracts with the right distributors for Palsgaard in China.

When contract signed it is your job to establish the partnership together with the distributor and to deepen the contact to the distributors, train their sales people in the Palsgaard products and to support them selling Palsgaard’s products in their region or industry.

It will also be your job to create more sales to new and existing customers together with your colleagues and the distributors.

It will be important to reach the very ambitious sales and growth targets.

To assist you supporting the distributors selling Palsgaard’s products to their customers in China you will have your very experienced local Application and Production team based in Shanghai as well as you will be able to draw upon the organisation at Palsgaard in Denmark and Singapore.

The job requires extensive travel activity within China.

General Manager

In addition to your primary role as sales director you will also be the General Manager of the local organisation in Shanghai and it will be your job to lead and motive the local sales, application and logistic team.

As General Manager you will have to deal with the administrative tasks needed to run a business in China. Your deputy in Shanghai, local partners or the HQ in Denmark will assist you as needed in this role.

Your Profile

We are looking for a General manager / Sales director who has experience in selling and distributing ingredients, raw material or semi-finished products to the food industry in China. You have either worked for a supplier outside China - like Palsgaard, a supplier in China or a distributor in China.

You speak Mandarin, have a European or American marketing education and have been working for a European or American company in China.

You live in Shanghai or you are willing to move to this area within reasonable time.

Palsgaard offers

A unique opportunity to build up a business in China.

A General Manager position

Membership of a family-like European company

Strong corporate cultures

Interesting salary package

Benefits to be negotiated

In this recruitment Mercuri Urval is the HR Partner of the company. Please apply as soon as possible by sending your resume and cover letter with the email-header "General Manager/Sales Director China" to career.cn@mercuriurval.com.

If you have any questions, please contact the responsible recruiter at Mercuri Urval, Ms. Erika Dong at +86 (0)21-6190 7588, extension 115.

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