We're looking for you!
Are you an experienced and skilled negotiator with a background in sales and distribution within the food production or meat products industry? Do you have excellent knowledge of the German-speaking B2B market (meat products, delicatessen, dairy industry, institutional customers, and chain restaurants) in the areas of spice, functional, and convenience solutions? You engage in discussions as an equal partner and serve as a competent point of contact, a problem-solver, and a source of ideas for our customers. Are you a strong communicator, customer-focused, and looking for your next career move—an exciting, responsible, long-term role with a high degree of autonomy?
Then we should get to know each other!
Key Account Manager B2B National (m/f/d)
for the food industry
Reference Number: 3014; Location: Greater Münster Area (Eastern Münsterland/NRW)
Our client, your future employer:
Your future employer is a long-established family-owned business that develops new food concepts, innovative solutions, and services for the food industry and the restaurant sector at various locations.
Your work location:
We are looking for you to start as soon as possible in the Greater Münster area (eastern Münsterland/North Rhine-Westphalia) (on-site plus remote work).
Here’s what we offer you:
- A position of responsibility, plenty of creative freedom, and excellent career prospects in a forward-thinking, agile company
- A supportive work environment with short decision-making paths
- Thorough onboarding and an exciting work environment
- Attractive contract terms and opportunities for professional growth
Your future responsibilities:
- Providing expert and proactive support for a defined segment of key accounts in the food industry, as well as large-scale consumers such as chain restaurants
- Responsibility for establishing, maintaining, and developing customer relationships with key accounts, as well as actively acquiring new customers
- Developing client-specific strategies for annual contract negotiations to achieve sustainable competitive advantages
- Preparing proposals, cost estimates, and selling prices; providing expert and needs-based support to customers regarding negotiated annual targets, such as sales value, sales volume, and sales initiatives
- Close collaboration with product development, quality assurance, and production
- Continuous monitoring of the market and competition, as well as budget and sales planning, and strategic expansion of the business unit
- Collaboration with all relevant departments within the company and across the corporate group
What you bring to the table:
- A successfully completed vocational training program in food technology (butcher, chef, baker, dairy technician (m/f/d)) and/or a college degree (with a focus on sales or food technology) or a comparable qualification
- Relevant professional experience with a proven track record of success, as well as excellent knowledge of the German food industry, its structures, and decision-making processes—ideally in the areas of spices, ingredients, food additives, or meat products
- Experience in conducting contract negotiations, securing product listings for food items, and delivering compelling product presentations and positioning, as well as experience in organizing and managing sales support initiatives
- Strong customer focus, excellent communication skills, and exceptional negotiation skills, as well as a keen sense of customer needs and market growth potential
- Flexible, solution- and performance-oriented, with an entrepreneurial mindset and a strong grasp of numbers
- Proficiency with standard MS Office tools
- Very good German language skills and willingness to travel
Who are we?
We are recognized specialists in HR consulting and recruitment for the food industry and food retail sector, and have been providing recruitment solutions for over 30 years.
Are you interested? Then please contact us:
We look forward to receiving your detailed application! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the LIEBLER INSTITUT team confidentially in advance. Or you can send your application materials—including your salary expectations and notice period—directly by email, quoting reference number 3014, to:
Your contact person
Ms. Karin Kellmann,
, Managing Director of the LIEBLER Institute Marl
Contact
LIEBLER INSTITUT GmbH
Dieselstraße 9
45770 Marl
02365 207 140
info@liebler.de
www.liebler.de