Distribution Manager & Brenntag Key Account Manager - Florham Park, NJ (Remote)

Distribution Manager & Brenntag Key Account Manager, Care Chemicals, BASF

 

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Distribution Manager & Brenntag Key Account Manager, Care Chemicals, BASF

 

In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team of Distribution Account Managers focused on distribution sales for Care Chemical’s (EM) Home Care and Industrial & Institutional Cleaning and Industrial Formulators portfolios. You will provide strategic oversight across all EM markets to drive harmonization of distribution management. You will serve as Key Account Manager (KAM) for Brenntag North America, a strategic chemical distributor, across various operating divisions in BASF North America. 

 

You will lead the distribution sales efforts for the various market segments and act as the Strategic Customer Network lead for Brenntag.  As Brenntag KAM, you will look across the portfolio of all BASF business with Brenntag to facilitate corporate wide “ease of doing business” and drive growth strategies.

Formula for success…

 

You will capitalize on your strong financial acumen, progressive experience in Sales preferably within distribution, coupled with your experience managing and coaching high performing teams, and…

 

• Your demonstrated leadership experience will be critical in developing, mentoring and motivating a team of Distribution Account Managers to grow our business with our selected Distribution Partners
• Your strategic vision will allow you to set short & long-term growth targets, monitor performance and initiate corrective actions; your strong communication skills will enable you to collaborate across functions and various levels to ensure alignment of targets and activities across EM
• Your strong interpersonal skills and organizational awareness will enable you to partneracross all BASF business functions to identify and capitalize upon qualified opportunities in the targeted portfolios
• Your ability to look and listen for opinions and feedback from others will be necessary to identify and implement new ideas to improve critical relationships with distribution partners and drive growth across all EM markets
• Your ability to build sustainable relationships will enable you as the Key Account Manager for Brenntag to deeply understand their culture, vision, and economic drivers to educate EM and Corporate Wide Regional Business Units to drive growth in strategic markets and technologies
• As Strategic Customer Network lead for Brenntag, you will facilitate the development and implementation of a Corporate wide strategy with the intent to identify value-added cross-Business Unit opportunities and ensure all possible opportunities are explored.

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• Flexible Work Arrangements whenever possible
• Retirement Benefits
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• Employee Discounts
• Pet insurance
• Matching Donations to your favorite cause
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