Sales Representative

**Date**:Jul 8, 2025

**Location**: Les Pailles, MU

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

**Job Purpose**:

- Offering order to delivery service
i. Take order from client.
ii. Follow up order at factory & other departments.
- b. Organizing samples
i. Take& Match colour APS.
ii. Develop the requested colour with team.
iii. Delivery of APS sample to site
- c. Follow tender process.
i. Find out who is getting the project.
- d. Provide technical advice on products.
- e. Organize cash collection.
- f. Communicate with clients on status of account.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Passionate Expert
- Role model AkzoNobel Value and Leadership Behaviors.
- Focus on self-development (Technical & Sales).
- Respect culture and gender diversity.
- Strive for best service deliveries.
- Deliver on commitment.
- Communicate effectively.
- Be target driven.
- Positive attitude
- Open to new ideas and change
- Operational Excellence
- Accurately place orders in time
- Follow up of orders/APS.
- Raise concerns when issues with quality or delay arise.
- Timeously collect payments.
- Customer Engagement
- Develop trusting relationship with client.
- Have a good understanding of account before visiting the client.
- Offer technical solution to clients.
- Build effective relationships with factory/logistics & sales force so as to better assist your customers.
- Follow up on client order and provide update where necessary.
- Ask for help to colleague and superior when needed.
- Business Performance
- Report on market activity and opportunities.
- Always try to cross sell and up sell and not only sell the easy ones.
- Strive for achieving your target.
- Strive to sell higher margins products.
- Understand the behavior and activities of your immediate competitors and communicate to your superiors.
- Develop ideas to win in your area and communicate with your team.

**Experience**:

- Experience:

- Sales / Account Management
- Operational - order to delivery process
- IT - excel, MS office experience is beneficial.
- A Valid driving licence
- HSE holder or equivalent experience
- Skills:

- Good positive attitude with clients
- Excellent Communication skills, both spoken and written (French and English)
- Customer focused and creative, with a firm commitment to service excellence
- Good communicator with respectful behavior
- Excellent Customer Service skills
- Result driven with the ability to work under pressure.
- Analytics and IT
- Knowledge:

- Industry knowledge
- Attributes of products/services
- Coming projects/Asset owners in the area
- Company processes and procedures

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 47598