We are growing in Finland and therefore are we looking for an experienced Area Sales Manager – Workwear and Safety Footwear to join our Finnish team – located in the Oulu area.

About The Job

Your primary role is to find new distributors and support our current distributors with sale of MASCOT product to end-user companies. You work independently and actively engage in promoting our products, which helps our distributors’ sale. All MASCOT product sales are done together with our distributors – our key to success.

Your sales area is located in northern Finland and Oula area, but you will also help your colleagues in other parts of Finland. You will have various tasks, and you must be willing to travel as well as stay overnight. When you are not visiting customers, you will work from your home office.

You will be a part of a team with colleagues all over Finland referring to our Country Manager. Our team will grow within the next 6 months to support our increased sales and to... guarantee improved results in the future.

Your tasks in the job:
• Plan meetings as well as visiting new and current distributors in your sales area
• Target potential new end-users for our distributors and contact them independently or together with our distributors
• Deliver constant flow of customers to our distributors
• Register planned and completed visits and sales efforts through CRM
• Attend trade exhibitions
• Follow-up on trade campaigns sent from our headquarters
• Maintain close dialogue with colleagues about large customers in the pipeline
• Participate actively in meetings and carry out the strategy for Finland
• In this job you will have approximately 50% distributor focus and 50% end-user focus.

Professional Skills

You have at least 3 years of experience as a Sales Representative/Account Manager/Area Sales Manager in a B2B environment, and you have experience with workwear and safety footwear and/or PPE-products. You can present solid and measurable results from previous jobs, and you have good negotiation skills. You have a persuasive personality, and you make long-term relationships with customers and distributors. You have a knowledge of MS Office, and you are used to working in a structured manner and using a CRM system to identify/follow-up on customers in your area.

Personal Skills

In order to ensure the best results in the job, it is important that you work independently and have a strong work ethic – occasionally exceeding normal work hours. You take responsibility for your tasks and deadlines and follow up on planned activities.

It is expected that you already live in the district - in the Oulu Area. You speak Finnish on native level, and you can communicate in English with colleagues at our headquarters in Denmark. Swedish language skills are an advantage, but not demanded. You must have the opportunity to establish a home office and are willing to travel approximately 30 days a year.

We prefer that you can show a stable CV.

Who are we?You will join a fast-growing international company with healthy values and a great corporate culture supported by skills, dedication, diligence and cooperation. We behave properly towards our customers, our colleagues and our business partners. We offer freedom under responsibility and reward results. We highly value management, which through coaching, motivation and follow-up, supports the active development of the individual employees, thus utilizing their full potential.

MASCOT offers:

At MASCOT, we reward professionalism, innovation and dynamic employees. We give everyone who can and will, great opportunities to develop both personally and professionally. We offer great back up and company support, a salary based on qualifications, a company car, a mobile phone and a laptop.

We would like your CV and application in English
Finland

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