MANDARIN CHINESE FIELD SALES MANAGER

This a REGIONAL FIELD SALES role is based in The Netherlands (Holland). If you speak fluent MANDARIN and ENGLISH and love the freedom to be out of the office meeting potential restaurant owners and representatives of supermarkets, this is a lovely role in which you will join a growing specialist food business that sells high-end Chinese foods into the UK, Europe and Holland . The role is very autonomous and you will be talking to ( and visiting ) existing clients (all are supermarkets, restaurants, caterers and retailers ), attending food-events and developing new business as well as introducing customers to new CHINESE food flavours and products. You need to have a sales background and must have a food-related background. There are excellent career opportunities in this expanding sector at the moment.
Title: MANDARIN CHINESE FIELD SALES MANAGER
Location : The Hague. HOLLAND.

Work style: 3 weeks on-the-road. 1 week per month in the office
Languages required : Fluent Chinese & English
Salary to Eu80,000 + 2 annual bonus’s
Work style: Field sales ( out-and-about visiting new and existing customers )
Team: CHINESE flavours
Travel involved: Yes. all over Europe ( travel expenses will be re-imbursed)
Start date : asap
Sponsorship : Yes. Sponsorship extension may be provided if you already have a visa
Essential background: Field sales experience and a food distribution background
Company details: This is a well-established food import/export business that specialises in importing specialists food products from China and supplies supermarkets and restaurant chains . The company has gone through a recent explosion in growth as a result of the increased interest in home-cooking that started during Covid. People are now experimenting with new flavours and new dishes and this company has been able to expand strongly to accommodate increasingly sophisticated and international dishes. In this role you will introduce your retail clients to new products , build new relationships with prospects all over Europe and the UK, arrange visits and do new business development
Duties
Sales & business development

• Contact potential or existing customers to promote products to supermarkets
• Arrange visits to existing customers and also new potential customers
• Introduce customers to new tastes and flavours ( and recipes)
• Liaise with the sales order processing team in the office in The Hague who will do your order processing for you
• Negotiate sales volumes and new supplier contracts
• Constantly visit existing customers to ensure that they are happy with the products and service
• You will work to sales targets

REQUIREMENTS:

• Fluent Mandarin and English (Dutch would be useful )
• Previous experience in Sales
• Food background