Join us and develop your career while creating a more sustainable future! You’ll be part of a global team of roughly 5,000 people and 60 nationalities, where diverse perspectives are valued and you can bring your authentic self to work every day. At Kemira you are empowered to reach your full potential, deliver innovation, and make an impact. We embrace a growth mindset, so we can deliver more value to our customers and communities.
Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water intensive industries. For more than 100 years, our chemistry has advanced human progress and quality of life. Kemira’s solutions help our customers in the pulp and paper, water, and energy industries clean water, save energy and use natural resources responsibly, while improving their productivity and enabling more sustainable business. We call it chemistry with a purpose, better every day.
In this role, you will have the flexibility to organize your work between office and remote, in a hybrid work culture.
We are now looking for a Senior Sales Manager to drive the value service sales in the Fiber Essentials (FE) business unit. We are looking for a candidate with experience in selling services and ability to create value for the customer and Kemira through new solutions. Understanding customer processes and applications and the commodity chemical market and fundaments is highly valued. The position is permanent.
FE offers unique expertise in applying chemicals and supporting customers to innovate and continuously improve their operational efficiency and end-product quality in a sustainable way. You are preferably based in EMEA. You will be reporting to Commercial Director, Sales and Value Services.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Identifying new growth opportunities for service sales to FE customers
- Develop new services together with the Kemira digital solutions & services team and other stakeholders
- Leading the FE value service sales and performance globally
- Create and maintain high customer relationship and satisfaction (NPS)
- Working with the cross-functional team of people driving for increased profitability, efficiency and sales
- Work through CRM when it comes to customer related action or event
What you’ll bring to the Team:
- 5+ years experience in B2B sales with proven track record in service sales
- Seasoned professional knowledge in applications and leading applications activities
- Ability to create value for the customer and Kemira through Kemira service offering
- Ability to impact, influence and convince others
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Strong and efficient technical writing skills
- High level of ethics and compliance
- Ability to work and operate independently and in the matrix organization
- Open minded, flexible with will do attitude in any situation
- Fluent in English
- • Ability to travel
- • Master’s degree or similar in a relevant field is desired
What you can expect from us:
- An opportunity to make a clear impact on the success of the FE business unit
- Best-in-class colleagues, expertise and collaboration tools that let you perform at your best
- Competitive compensation, benefits and recongnition for driving results
- Flexibility to organize your work between office and remote in a hybrid work culture
- A multicultural and positive working environment
For more information, please contact Kasper Lindroos, Commercial Director, Sales and Value Services, FE Bleaching by email [email protected] or by phone +358505001908.
Please apply with your CV, cover letter and salary request no later than 12th January 2025 at kemira.com/careers.
Kemira is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to further develop our diverse and inclusive workplace.
Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries. Our customers include industrial and municipal water treatment operators, and pulp & paper industry among others. We provide the best-suited products and services to improve our customers’ product quality, process, and resource efficiency. Our focus is on water treatment, renewable solutions, and digital services. In 2023, Kemira had annual revenue of around EUR 3.4 billion and around 5,000 employees. Kemira shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd.
For more information, please visit our website at: www.kemira.com/careers and LinkedIn.