Technical Service Manager - Evonik

We, Evonik have a vacant position in Marketing/Sales for our Animal Nutrition Business line based in the Accra/Ghana office. The ideal candidate will work in the Animal Nutrition business where Evonik is regarded as the world market leader in amino acids and gut health for farm animals due to its commitment to serve the feed industry worldwide.

You will work on exciting and challenging topics together with a team in an ultra-modern, innovative and creative environment. Intensive on-the-job training with expert colleagues guarantees you will quickly become familiar with your duties and perform them independently. Performance related pay and the opportunity for personal and professional development are of course part of the package. Since 2009 Evonik Industries AG has been certified as a family-friendly company by the German Hertie Foundation.

Responsibilities

• Development of relationships with customers, consultants and other stakeholders in the animal feed industry
• Launch and implementation of new products and services
• Market analysis and customer surveys
• First level customer sales, technical representation and service
• Understanding customers´ commercial and technical needs and opportunities
• Fulfilling these needs through budgeted resources of regional service platforms
• Develop ideas for customer specific strategies and implement agreed upon action plans
• Break down and transfer of regional strategies and budgets into local actions
• Budgeting and management of national resources and costs to achieve sales targets
• Generating, evaluating and reporting of market and competitive information to ensure competitive advantage
• Provide high quality and complete data input into AN CRM tools to ensure a proper market and account management

Requirements

• More than 5 years Sales/Marketing experience ideally with commercial/technical background education related to the chemical/animal nutrition industry.
• Graduated as BSc (Agric) Animal Science, B.Comm or MBA
• Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English with other language capabilities (eg. French, Portuguese) are a plus.
• To be based in Ghana, willing to travel within Sub-Sahara Africa and the entire EMEA region.
• Open minded, self-motivated and enthusiastic personality with the desire for a medium/long term career development in a multi-national company.
• Ability to work and learn in an international cross-cultural environment
• Capability to work in a team and with a network, but also to be autonomous in implementing actions.
• Ideally, a good understanding and knowledge of the feed industry in Africa.