Sales Manager

Passion for VAP sales in seafood? Join us!

Trust, traceability, tradition – is this close to your heart? This trinity ensures we always deliver superior seafood, responsibly harvested, and carefully processed, from harbour to home. 

To live up to this trinity, we have a dedicated and engaged team of 300 seafood and maritime enthusiasts working across the value chain in a dynamic environment. Babord Seafood produces and distributes value added seafood products in our two processing facilities located in Poland and Raudeberg. We are growing and therefore want to strengthen our sales team with a new Sales Manager.

Is Babord Seafood your new home? 

As a Sales Manager in Babord Seafood your responsibility areas will be:

• Sales of value-added seafood products of red fish and white fish, as well as breaded fish products to existing and new customers 
• Sales meetings, client presentations and participate in market activities
• Following up contracts, demands and orders
• Customer experience and development
• Identify target customers where there are opportunities to increase sales 
• Attend at conferences and exhibitions
• Budgeting, planning and reporting
• Strong language skills in Norwegian and English, preferably Spanish. Other language skills will be considered as positive.
• Your workplace will be in office in Bergen. The position reports to CSO. 

Qualifications:

• We believe it is essential that you have experience within similar positions or companies
• Knowledge of seafood markets and export sales
• Relevant higher education on bachelor or master’s level, but relevant experience can compensate for lack of education
• Excellent communication skills in English at a professional level, both written and verbal is essential

To success in this role: 

You identify and seizes commercial opportunities and have a strong positive impact on business growth and profitability. You act on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results. You make an impact, convinces others, promotes plans and ideas successfully. You adhere to company rules and procedures, executes plans with commitment and determination, finally you work well within a team and are capable of build and develop your network.

Babord Seafood offers the right candidate: 

• Highly motivated, engaged, and good colleagues in an industry in growth
• Competitive conditions
• Varied workdays and several exciting plans ahead

Babord is a knowledge-oriented organization with high focus on learning, thus as an employee you will get exciting challenges and good opportunities for personal and professional development. In order to learn a little bit more about the company and what we are all about, please review attached company video and visit our homepage www.babordgroup.com.