Head of Sales Specialties

Job Highlights

• Lead, coach, and develop a regional sales team, fostering high performance, collaboration, and accountability
• Define and implement regional sales strategies aligned with global BU objectives, ensuring growth and profitability targets are met
• Oversee pricing strategies, contract negotiations, and margin optimization, ensuring alignment with corporate guidelines
• Drive new business development, identifying opportunities to expand the product portfolio and strengthen the BU's market position
• Ensure robust execution of sales processes, including forecasting (IBP), S&OP, budgeting, and pipeline management
• Enforce discipline in CRM usage and ensure that call plans, visit reports, and account plans are consistently maintained and leveraged for decision-making
• Continuously monitor market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive activity, translating insights into actionable strategies
• Work closely with Marketing and Global Key Account Managers to align regional priorities with global initiatives
• Represent the BU at industry events, trade shows, and professional associations, strengthening market presence and networking with key stakeholders
• Partner with internal functions including Marketing, Planning, Customer Service, and Credit to ensure seamless customer experience and efficient order-to-cash processes
• Collaborate with peers in other BUs who manage the same customer groups to ensure unified company representation and synergy in account management
• Coordinate with Global Key Account Managers within the BU to align pricing, service, and growth strategies across regions

Experience and Skills

Location : Pittsburgh

Employee Type : Regular

Who we are

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with about 12,000 employees in 32 countries. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives and consumer protection products. LANXESS has achieved leading positions in the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Index and the MSCI ESG and ISS ESG ratings, among others, for its commitment to sustainability.

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What we offer you

LANXESS has a value-based performance culture. We are seeking a range of human interests, backgrounds, and experiences that can be engaged to achieve respect, ownership, trust, professionalism, integrity and healing across all sectors.

We are looking to find diverse and talented people to join our team. Studies have shown that some individuals are less likely to apply if they do not meet 100% of the criteria. We are looking to equalize the gap! If you are excited about this role but your past experiences do not align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We will look to assess your talent against our competencies, values and requirements to get the best organizational fit. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles we have available!

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