Careers

To further expand our team, we are currently looking for:

 

Technical Sales Assistant (Brazil)

Job Purpose

  • The purpose of this role is driving sales growth by providing high level commercial and technical support, building strong client and distributor relationships, conducting product trials, and delivering clear analysis and reporting of results to support business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Visit regularly clients by providing commercial technical consulting
  • Deal with clients, in order to obtain the request under mutually satisfactory conditions
  • Identify customer needs, profiles, and market opportunities
  • Accompany the market trends and formulate initiatives seeking to increase customer portfolio in order to stimulate sales growth
  • Provide technical and commercial support to distributors
  • Personal training for customers and distributor on how to use the INVE product portfolio
  • Plan, implement, and monitor product trials to demonstrate performance and efficacy
  • Analyze test results and prepare clear, accurate technical and commercial reports

Qualifications and experience

  • Degree in aquaculture, biologist or a related field
  • Good level of technical expertise is a plus
  • Proven work experience as a Technical Sales Assistant or similar role
  • Intermediate proficiency in English and Spanish is desirable
  • Good knowledge of MS Office
  • Active Category B Driver’s License
  • Frequent national and occasional international travel is required

Personal attributes/characteristics

  • Strong customer centric mindset
  • Takes initiative
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Self-motivated, autonomous, and effective in time management
  • Ability to work in an international and fast-paced environment
  • Flexible and able to travel nationally and internationally
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Clear, confident, and effective communication
  • Teamwork
  • Able to build and develop relationships at all levels

Reports to: Area Manager

Direct reports: NA

Location: INVE do Brasil – Ceará

Interested?
We offer a challenging job in a dynamic sector and growing company with a compatible salary package in-line with your experience. If you want to apply for this job, then please forward your CV and motivation letter to Mr. Marc De Feyter, HR Director, at HRM@inveaquaculture.com

Product Application Manager APAC (health products) (Southeast Asia)

Job Purpose

  • The Product Application Manager (PAM) ensures that connection between the Product team and the market happens consistently, efficiently and profitable. Main functions of PAM are:
    • guide market to use the right products for right purpose, keep discipline of product application
    • guide right product dosage to meet customer expectation and maximize values
    • guide right comb products to solve complicated problems
    • further develop local new opportunities, support local for local solutions.

    The PAM works closely with customers and sales teams, to:

    1. Understand customer/business needs
    2. Support product implementation and adoption
    3. Hands on application according to local environments

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with sale team, focus on guiding Health Product Application for the APAC region based upon specific market needs and expectations.
    • Frequently visit regional market, provide customer solution by in depth product knowledge along with specific local customer needs.
    • Work with country key account managers to provide health product solution to improve farm performance and production efficiency.
    • Work with country manager and PM to plan annual strategic health product trials for local/regional market application. Cooperate with local Technical Support to execute trials at local farms according to the plan.
    • Follow up with trial report and generate marketing tools (argumentation, production application solution) for local sale support.
  • Work with marketing team, conduct training for regional sale with product knowledge and product application guides, develop marketing tool for commercial use
    • Transfer global resources (Data, trial, protocol, service) into local market tools for local business growth.
    • Leading internal product and solution training for sale team, regular provide new product knowledge and product application solution effectively to the local sales organization.
    • Leading external training/workshop/seminar with key account and distributors under health product scope.
    • Enhance INVE health regional influence by participating regional industrial events
    • Generate handy marketing tools for regional and global use along with marketing team.
  • Support Global Product Manager (PM) and Regional Sales Director (RSD) for regional portfolio development and local for local strategy.
    • Deep understanding of local market needs and pain points, work with PM to translate local needs into a new product solution
    • Provide feedback and input to PM and RSD with current INVE health products, potential to improve and optimize.
    • Review regional market intelligence and dynamics with PM, commercial leaders and RSD periodically, identify market opportunities, new products on the market and competitor movement.
    • Supporting INVE health product local for local strategy execution.

Qualifications and experience

  • Good understanding of health products application in the industry.
  • Good understanding of farming practice in assigned region.
  • Great technical knowledge and know-how in both hatchery and farms ( Shrimp & Fish )
  • Fluency in English is a must, proficient in one local language is required.
  • Hands-on experience with shrimp or fish farming
  • Experience in an international commercial environment
  • Experience with public speaking and presentation
  • Problem solving oriented
  • Data analysis skills
  • Project management skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Personal attributes/characteristics

  • Passion for products
  • Customer-focused and scientific-oriented: ability to always keep the customer in mind first, to serve as the customer’s internal advocate
  • Dynamic personality, good listener
  • Understanding business and market needs, ability to translate market needs into product or project
  • Team player with strong communication and negotiation skills and proven ability to build consensus among cross-functional stakeholders; stimulating team spirit
  • Target drive, degree of tenacity

Reports to: Product & Business Development Manager – health

Direct reports: None

Travel:  frequent travel is required in assigned region (60%)

Location: Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia…)

Interested?
We offer a challenging job in a dynamic sector and growing company with a compatible salary package in-line with your experience. If you want to apply for this job, then please forward your CV and motivation letter to Mr. Marc De Feyter, HR Director, at HRM@inveaquaculture.com