Sales Support Executive

Requisition ID ‎36939
Position Type FT Permanent
Recruiter #LI-SS1
Posting Type LI

About Kerry

Founded in ‎1972 in Co. Kerry, Ireland, the Kerry Group has annualised sales in
excess of €‎7 Billion and supplies over ‎18,000 food ingredients and flavour
products to customers in more than ‎140 countries worldwide. We have
established over ‎150 manufacturing sites, operate in over ‎30 countries, and
employ ‎25,000 people worldwide.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since ‎1997 and has grown its
business to become a supplier of choice for our regional and local customers.
With over ‎4,500 employees across the Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa
(APMEA), Kerry has many exciting opportunities at our many Development &
Application Centres, Sales Offices and Manufacturing sites. Spread over ‎18
countries - and growing - Kerry plays a large role in supplying food &
beverage solutions to this diverse region.

Our Values: Courage | Ownership | Inclusiveness | Open-Mindedness |
Enterprising Spirit

About the role

Work Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Reporting To: Commercial Director

The Sales Support Executive plays a key role in the sales process, supporting
the sales and commercial teams to deliver on their strategic goals.

Key responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for key accounts managers to manage information flowing back into the organization, and a coordinator of information flowing from Kerry to the external stakeholders


• Manage communication flow from sales back into the internal functional teams such as Supply Chain, RD&A, Regulatory, Commercial Finance and Operations


• Increase capacity and productivity of frontline account owners to focus on selling


• Preparation and circulation of presentation & reports to sales team for key meetings such as SFDC Updates; EPM Sales Updates and Call Report Performance


• Scheduling & preparation for weekly team meetings and bi-weekly pipeline meetings


• Attends appropriate Stage gate, Dashboard, Planning, Forecasting and EUM End Use Market) meetings to provide the business leaders updates on key projects and represent the sales team


• Maintain SFDC accuracy by ensuring that SFDC contacts, project updates, close dates are up to date and information is provided by the sales team on a timely manner


• Work on Customer Engagements with marketing & Commercial teams to ensure customer visits are at the highest level


• Adapt and develop ways of working with a view to enhancing the role and identifying further efficiencies and process improvements

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelors Degree in Food Science or similar background


• Commercial or Operations professional with at least ‎5 years' relevant working experience in a complex, multi-national organization preferably in the Retail, FMCG or Food Service industry


• Solid understanding of the commercial and operational business management practices, with hands-on experience in data analysis, process improvement and coordination work


• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions


• Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives


• Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments


• Comfortable managing both internal and external relationships that incudes Commercial/Sales team, General Management, Customers, and other stake holders of different cultures


• Must be proactive, use individual initiative, follow assignments through to completion, and be attentive to detail and deadlines