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Sales Executive Energy & Infrastructure

JOTUN

Jotun is looking for a positive and proactive Sales Executive to promote and sell our high quality product range to Energy & Infra projects. It is a big plus if you have experience and knowledge about the Protective Coatings market in Norway.

Your responsibility will be to support the Sales manager in promoting and selling Performance Coatings products to new and existing customers by developing strong customer relationships. In our sales team, we have a set of Jotun sales tools and techniques which we utilise to achieve budgeted sales, gross margin, DSO with the aim of increasing Jotun market share and profitability.

Responsibilities:

As our new Sales Executive you will

• Support Segment management team to achieve sales target by managing relationships with customers and pursuing growth opportunities in assigned customer accounts.
• Support developing customer account plans for all assigned customers by identifying the relevant customer needs, prioritizing initiatives and company resources to meet customers’ needs, and maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Promote products, services, and solutions to owners and consultants through regular visits, product presentations, and follow-ups, and respond to inquiries in order to recommend and ensure that Jotun is preferred for the projects.
• Follow-up on projects within allocated geographical territories and concept markets by coordinating and monitoring closely with project personnel to ensure Jotun products are used to achieve the sales budget.
• Liaise with the client market and respond to sales and technical inquiries, introducing new products, and monitoring projects by specifications.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT WE OFFER

Qualifications:

In order to succeed we believe you should have:

- Experience with working in a sales driven environment

- Knowledge of Protective/Marine paint and Passive Fire Protection

- Fluency in English language

- Driver license class B

Preferably you should also have

- FROSIO level III

- Experience of working with CRM system

Personal qualities:

We believe that the right candidate

• acts on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results;
• demonstrates specialist knowledge and expertise in own area; participates in continuous professional development;
• makes an impact; convinces and persuades others; promotes plans and ideas successfully;
• builds a useful network of contacts and relationships and utilizes it to achieve objectives;
• co-operates well with others; shares knowledge, experience and information; supports others in the pursuit of team goals;
• adheres to company rules and procedures; executes plans with commitment and determination; achieves high quality results.

What we offer:

• A friendly and supportive culture. We have an informal work environment with few hierarchies. We are always striving to live our values: Loyalty, Care, Respect, Boldness.
• Extensive opportunities for professional and personal development, through internal programs and Jotun Academy.
• A professional and supportive work environment with focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
• Exciting challenges in a growing company with excellent financial results.
• Highly competitive pension and insurance scheme.

Work location: Preferably somewhere on the West Coast of Norway

Jotun has protected property for almost a century – from iconic buildings to beautiful homes. As one of the world's leading paints and coatings manufacturers, we combine high quality with creativity and innovations.

Jotun's global headquarters is located in Sandefjord, Norway. Here, Jotun Norway has 1000 employees working in state-of-the-art facilities covering services from local factory operations at Vindal to global product development in our new research and development centre at Sandefjord, one of Northern Europe's largest privately owned R&D centres. The administration centre for Europe and Central Asia is located in Sandefjord, together with our local Norwegian operations.

We provide various career opportunities in finance and administration, IT, sales and marketing, supply chain, engineering, technical, and research and development.

Jotun is committed to an ambitious growth strategy. We believe that the real value in our companies is our employees, both as individuals and as teams. We focus on providing our employees with meaningful and challenging work, rewarding them through continued learning and development driven by our values of Loyalty, Care, Respect and Boldness.

Visit our Career Page to learn more about life at Jotun.

Jotun’s company culture welcomes and values differences in people. Our more than 10,200 employees on all continents represent 90 nationalities, four generations and a diversity of professions, genders, abilities, ethnicities, beliefs, cultures, etc. We are committed to representing the societies we operate in, promoting equality, equity and zero-tolerance for discrimination.

If you are applying for a position and require additional support in the interview process, please let us know how we can accommodate this.

If you think this role is what you could do next, apply now!