Sales Manager - Eastern Europe

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Hungary
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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Sales Manager – Eastern Europe

Location: Home based - Hungary

Contract: Permanent 40 hours per week - If flexibility is important to you, please discuss potential opportunities with our hiring team.

AB Vista is seeking a motivated and technically skilled Sales Manager to join their team, focusing on the Eastern European market. This home-based role, with approximately 60% travel across Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, is designed for a candidate with deep knowledge in animal nutrition and physiology. With no direct reports, the role requires effective collaboration and communication across internal and external stakeholders to advance business.

This is an exciting chance to join a well-rounded, innovative team within a globally respected organization. You'll be contributing to AB Vista’s growth in gut health performance products, using your knowledge of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, and Phyto biotics to develop strategic sales plans and build long-term relationships with key stakeholders. Backed by a company that values curiosity, excellence, and growth, you’ll have the freedom to expand market reach across a dynamic region.

Some key responsibilities will include:
- Manage sales efforts by developing effective sales strategies, setting sales targets, and monitoring performance.
- Build and maintain reliable relationships with key customers, distributors, and industry stakeholders.
- Identify and establish strategic partnerships with suppliers, service providers, and other stakeholders to support business goals.
This is a great opportunity for someone who has a strong technical background in animal science or veterinary nutrition, thrives in B2B environments, and is motivated by improving animal health through innovative feed solutions.

Skills and Experience

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match the job description. Your skills and motivation are what truly matter to us. We value our diverse workforce and believe that our inclusive culture creates an environment where everyone can thrive.
- Qualified to a minimum bachelor’s degree in science, Veterinary Science, Animal Nutrition, Animal Science or related field.
- A good understanding of feed and livestock industries with experience in the animal nutrition and feed additives/ingredients sectors.
- Solid background in Sales.
- Experience in gut health products is extremely valuable and essential.
Location: home-based working arrangement involving approximately 60% travel across all Eastern Europe countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Czech rep, Slovakia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Lourdes Villalba via [email protected].

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