Senior International Business Development Manager

Flexible location with international travel (Dublin based office)

Excellent Salary + Benefits

Our client is a leading manufacturer of top quality point-of-use mains attached water dispensing and purifying systems. The company has an extensive and continuously expanding global distribution network in place, reaching over 40 countries across 5 continents. Their mission statement is to be the world-wide leading manufacturer and distributor of superior quality point-of-use water dispensers.

They currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior International Business Development Manager to join them and to play a pivotal role in the continued international sales growth of the company. The company has direct subsidiaries in France, Germany, Scandinavia and USA. A Senior Business Development Manager is sought to manage this distributor business. This newly created role will take management of the major distributor accounts and also the sales team who look after the smaller distributor accounts around the world. Specifically, this will mean developing and managing major international customers, distributor accounts and managing a global sales team covering; Latin America, Mediterranean & Middle East and Far East. You will be accountable for and report on sales performance in the markets, recommending strategies for accelerated sales growth.

You will have extensive international business development experience, and will be skilled at creating customer networks and opening new channels in new territories. A professional account manager, you will ideally have experience of working in an international company. You will have the personal qualities to enable you to excite customers as to the commercial potential of their products. You will need good IT skills as well as a willingness to travel abroad extensively. A second language would be ideal, however this is not essential. International experience in developing B2B customers is necessary. This is a field based role and as such the location is extremely flexible.