Title:  Technical Account Manager - Beauty and Personal Care

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Start your career journey with Univar Solutions!  Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. 

The Technical Account Manager will provide technical services to assigned Beauty and Personal Care customers for the purpose of sales growth. It will promote a distinction between Univar Solutions and our competitors by using a technical consultative approach to needs-based evaluations of the technology customers use.

Additional duties include adapting and implementing on a local basis, the product strategies and services; assisting field sellers and industry team members with joint calls; identifying which Univar technological product best suits the customer’s applications and developing strategies to promote customers’ adaptation and or conversion to Univar products.

It builds profitable sales, employing a consultative approach. Develops and maintains a long-term partnership with customers by using industry expertise. Uses Univar resources to provide solutions to customer needs and gathers market intelligence.

What you'll do

• Develop effective customer relationships and actively seek new product opportunities.
• Prepare technical presentations on cosmetic formulations for the customer's R&D department.
• Support the customer's R&D department at a technical level.
• Visit customers on high-profitability projects, create relationships and reliability on a technical level.
• Follow the sales cycle (proposals, samples, visits, etc.).
• Develop new perspectives proactively and supervise competitive activity.
• Representing suppliers and exchanging market information effectively between the main trading partners, maintaining compliance standards.
• Constantly monitor the market by mapping technological innovations, regulatory updates and reference legislation.
• Keep the CRM system up to date, generating "Target Business Opportunities" that ensure growth.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree (technical or Chemistry preferred).
• Successful experience (five years minimum) with a specialized product concentration in the Beauty and Personal Care industry. 
• Experience dealing with customers at multiple levels, both internal and external, and supplier partners.
• Proficient in the use of computers and MS Office including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to handle complex projects and multi-task responsibilities.
• Ability to manage detailed work activities and be persistent in following up on details.
• Possess tact, integrity and high business ethics.
• Understand current issues and align sales efforts with stated company objectives.
• Demonstrated selling skills & multi-tasking abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both oral and written, are necessary to communicate effectively inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to travel.
• You are fluent in German and English language.

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more.  Our global team of more than 9,500 employees support our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor on the planet!

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe! 

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.  Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry. 

Univar Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classification. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the hiring process, please contact us at careers@univarsolutions.com.  

Univar Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms (collectively Recruiting Firms). Recruiting Firms must enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Univar Solutions prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. All searches must be initiated by Univar Solutions' Talent Acquisition team and candidates must be submitted via Applicant Tracking System (ATS) by approved vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless the aforementioned conditions have been met. Contacting our hiring managers directly is prohibited.