Labelling Business Development Manager – Europe

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

This role to be based in Europe (Germany, Holland, France), requires someone comfortable with solution based selling of concepts and technological capabilities, rather than an off-the-shelf product. You will have a strong relationship with the automotive sector, working with automotive suppliers and ideally the automotive manufacturers themselves. You will have strong technical knowledge within the labels/labelling materials product category, or if not then a science led qualification like Chemistry or similar as you will need a technical mind to identify opportunities to solve client problems with their current labelling solution. You will also have first class relationship building skills as this is a customer facing role, with travelling throughout Europe and you will be strategically minded. The Business Development Manager is a key function in the team, working with a product development manager, in the marketing team to develop and execute the market strategy for the automotive segment. The strategy will be driven through the value chain addressing relevant functions to support the it. The strategy should allow introductions of innovations or niche products or displace competitive solutions by leveraging the value proposition. Will utilise consumer insights to ensure the platforms and ventures we pursue are meaningful and sustainable and functions well in a matrix organisation to provide direction to the management functions across the global regions.