Country Sales Manager - MAPA PRO, Netherlands

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Country Sales Manager, Netherlands – MAPA PRO

Location: Netherlands

Reports to: Sales Manager

Contract type: Permanent, full time

Your Role & Team in a Nutshell

As Country Sales Manager for MAPA PRO, you will be the driving force behind our commercial growth and strategic market positioning in the PPE sector, with a focus on high-performance protective gloves. This key role combines leadership, client engagement, and business development to deliver results in a dynamic and safety-critical industry. Join a global leader where innovation, protection, and customer excellence go hand in hand.

We will help you achieve your goals and develop by providing regular feedback and access to online training courses.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Prospect for and develop a portfolio of end-user customers, providing technical and economic advice and recommendations:
  • Meet decision-makers (buyers, health and safety managers, production engineers, etc.), draw up technical recommendations tailored to their needs and close deals.
  • Analyze and audit the various users at their workstations
  • Identify target prices to position an offer
  • Draw up an appropriate commercial offer that includes distribution networks
• Manage a network of PPE and public sector distributors and set up partnerships, playing an active part in developing their turnover:
  • Negotiate annual agreements and ensure that MAPA Spontex is referenced in the sales plans of distributors in its area to increase its sales and develop market shares.
  • Implement a sales action plan to achieve objectives
  • Promote distribution networks by providing technical training to their sales forces and by communicating sales pitches and marketing tools
  • Support distributors' sales forces in their dealings with end users
  • Meet targets and analyze variances
  • Relevant and regular reporting.
  • Gather and pass on information from the field, as required for competitive intelligence and market knowledge

What You’ll Need

Minimum:

• Fluent Dutch and English
• Demonstrable experience of selling technical products, with experience of managing a network of distributors
• Ability to lead, unite and negotiate.
• Strong commercial sense with excellent communication skills
• Autonomy and charisma, assertive in all situations
• Convincing and dynamic

Your advantage:

• Experience in PPE industry

What You Gain

Newell Brands has a strong footprint in the EMEA region, with several thousand employees spread over many corporate offices and manufacturing facilities. You might recognise some of our iconic brands, like Parker, Sistema, Spontex, Crockpot, NUK, Coleman, and Yankee Candle, to name a few.

Join us and benefit from:

• Company car and competitive bonus structure
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning – 17,000+ courses for your professional and personal development
• Corporate Citizenship Philosophies – environmentally sustainable and socially sensitive business practices
• Discounts on some of our products from brands Parker, DYMO, Sharpie, Contigo, and others
• Employee Referral Program – an opportunity to get a bonus
• Global Employee Assistance Program – confidential support for you and your family, complementing our commitment to your well-being at work and beyond
• Give@Newell – paid time-off for charity activities dedicated for local communities right where you live/work
• Access to Employee Resource Groups that foster an inclusive culture
• Core Values: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, Leadership

Are you interested?

If so, please click on “Apply Now” on this site and upload your CV in English.

If your application is shortlisted, our recruiter will invite you for an initial phone interview.

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Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments.