Presales Manager

**Netherlands | Breda**
- Drawing on more than 150 years of expertise across the agro-supply chain, our collective knowledge and close collaboration with our partner farmers, customers and suppliers makes us the go-to _**_fruit_**_ and _**_vegetable_**_ ingredients supplier for leading food and beverage manufacturers across the globe._
- Due to the expansion of our _sales team_ _we are searching for a Presales Manager at our location in Breda._

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**_Presales Manager (40 hours)_**
- Team player with strong analytical skills and a commercial drive_
- Lead Generation to drive our overall LTO Pipeline with high qualitative leads
- Develop external lead sources for a digital and automatized lead generation
- Qualification of Leads for a high conversion rate into opportunities to drive our pipeline forward
- Creation of Leads and new potential business opportunities in collaboration with sales, marketing and product management
- Prospect validation and generation, figuring out who and where are missing customers
- Perform digital research on target markets and analyze Potential Markets and customers
- Customer activation by Identifying underleveraged accounts within the AOR and develop strategies to activate and nurture these accounts.
- Interacting with customers and assisting the sales team in efficient customer communication
- Utilize cold calling, digital platforms (e.g. LinkedIn Sales Navigator) to initiate customer introduction meetings and create awareness of the company’s offerings
- Understand the Product Marketing messaging and go-to-market strategy
- Execute marketing campaigns together with the Manager Market Intelligence
- You will report to the Commercial Director

What do you bring with you?
- Bachelor’s degree in Sales or Marketing
- 5 years of experience in pre-sales, sales, or a related field.
- Strong hunter profile - target driven
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Strong & proven commercial and customer orientation skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, other languages are a big plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Your strengths lie in relationships, you are persuasive, creative and entrepreneurial but most of all, you are a team player.

What do we have to offer you?

A challenging international working environment where you can broaden your horizon, gain enormous experience in the industrial processed food sector and utilize your commercial drive until the full extend. A welcoming commercial team where you will be well trained and guided in your onboarding. You will receive a Fruit2You training in which you will gain extensive product knowledge and visit some of our production sites. We offer a place where successes and challenges are shared, where we flourish together. SVZ is a producer of healthy ingredients, produced in a sustainable way that taste great all over the world. A good compensation package with an end-years gratification & bonus scheme and also the possibility of a hybrid way is part of our package.