Account Manager France & Benelux (f/m), Fontenay-sous-Bois

Our passion for science and technology drives our approximately 62,000 employees in 65 countries to address some of today’s toughest challenges and develop more sustainable ways of living.

In our rapidly changing and uncertain world, factors such as an aging population, chronic diseases, AI, climate change, and other megatrends have created an appetite for scientific breakthroughs that can make a positive difference across our global society. The pace of change will increase over coming decades as technologies evolve and converge in ways that fundamentally transform how we live and work. For us at Merck, change is not a threat but an opportunity as we have proven for over more than 350 years.

Your role

• You are acting as Account Manager, Specialties Industrials and Cosmetics.
• You ensure the sales of our effect pigments and our functionals/actives to defined major players in the market.
• You are responsible for setting up the company's commercial policy for these accounts. In coordination with the marketing team, you ensure the launch of our new products, and you guarantee the application of our pricing policy.
• You create, qualify, and develop a consistent pipeline of new opportunities.
• As a specialist, you are the first point of contact for our customers.
• Thanks to your knowledge, your analytical skills, and your experience in these areas, you provide solutions to customer needs with the help of our technical support in Germany and in France.

Profile

• Experienced in Sales or Sales Support in the Chemistry/Surface Solutions arena.
• Highly motivated by customer interactions and self-directed.
• Excellent selling skills. Excellent time management and organization skills to maximize time spent with customers.
• Strong communication (verbal/written), interpersonal, and presentations skills.
• Fluent Dutch, French, English (written and oral).
• Resolutely customer - oriented. Flexible and resolutely turned towards innovation.
• Able to evolve in an international environment.
• Autonomous and used to work from a home office.