Area Sales Manager - Central Sweden

Gerflor Group creates, manufactures, and markets innovative, decorative and sustainable flooring solutions and wall finishes. We develop specific flooring and wall solutions to meet every indoor market application need: housing, healthcare, education, sport, retail, industry, offices, hospitality and transport vehicles. Gerflor Group gathers several world-renowned product brand names, such as Taraflex®, Mipolam®, DLW®, Tarabus®, Connor Sports®, Sportcourt® and Gradus®.

Following our successful international growth strategy, we have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a dynamic

Area Sales Manager - Central Sweden

- based in Central Sweden (Värmland, Västmanländ, Närke, Östergötland) -

Our Area Sales Managers are focussed on the Swedish building projects market. They develop and maintain relationships with architects, designers, investors and specifiers to promote our flooring product and win specifications.

Your role:

• Acquire, develop and manage customers in Central Sweden to win specifications and achieve sales targets for the area
• Proactive networking with architects, local authorities, project developers, floor layers, i.e. any potential decision-makers involved in the specification of flooring
• Manage the buying customers (floor layers, contractors) to achieve sales targets for the region.
• Support and train distributers / retailers, incl. joint customer visits
• Consistent follow-up of projects and specification processes, incl. documentation and tracking in the CRM system
• Provide market research concerning competition, distribution, product trends, standards, etc.
• Organise and participate in customer events and trade shows

Your profile:

• 3+ years working experience in comparable sales role, i.e. in specification sales and long term business with multi stakeholder decision makers
• A proactive self-starter attitude and a talent for new customer acquisition
• The flexibility to quickly to adapt to different people and management levels
• User knowledge of CRM Systems and a good self-organisation
• A very good command of Swedish and good English skills

Our offer:

• Opportunity to work in a successful multinational company
• Opportunities for personal career development
• Versatile and multifaceted job tasks
• Attractive salary and long term perspectives

Sounds interesting? We would like to get to know you better.