EXPORT TECHNICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE M/F - Composites Sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your main missions:

Reporting to the Composite Division Manager, you will contribute to the commercial development of your sector internationally.

In this capacity, you will be required to:

• Develop new markets: identify and prospect new customers, open new accounts, and handle export customer inquiries.
• Develop sales and turnover, while ensuring the maintenance of margins.
• Retain and develop the existing customer portfolio, by building lasting relationships with technical and purchasing contacts.
• Analyze customer needs and propose suitable technical and commercial solutions.
• Prepare offers, negotiate commercial terms, and ensure follow-up of business until completion.
• Organize and coordinate customer visits and ensure follow-up of commercial actions.
• Develop and manage the distribution network.
• Propose and implement commercial and product promotion actions, notably during professional trade fairs.
• Analyze commercial results and propose actions aimed at improving your sector's performance.
• Ensure market, technological, and competitive intelligence and contribute to the export commercial strategy.
• Report field information regarding market evolutions, cultural specificities, and applicable standards in the countries concerned.
• Ensure regular reporting of your activity and results to the Commercial Management.

What we offer you:

• CDI - Executive status
• Position based in western Lyon
• Remuneration according to experience: €40 to €46 K gross fixed + variable, Company vehicle
• Regular international travel: approximately 2 weeks per month
• Mutual insurance and contingency (60% employer share)
• Restaurant vouchers
• Profit-sharing scheme
• Christmas gift vouchers

REQUIRED PROFILE:

With a Bac+4 or 5 degree in international business, technical sales, or commercial engineering, ideally with a specialization in materials, composites, mechanics, plastics, or engineering, you wish to put your technical expertise at the service of commercial development.

You have a first experience in an industrial, commercial, or technical-sales environment, ideally in composite materials.

You have a hunter temperament: pugnacious, tenacious, and results-oriented, you enjoy conquering new markets, opening accounts, and developing lasting commercial relationships.

Curious and endowed with excellent interpersonal skills, you know how to understand your customers' technical challenges and transform their needs into commercial opportunities.

Comfortable in an international environment, you are proficient in English and ideally a third language, notably Spanish.

You are mobile and enjoy traveling abroad.