Account Manager - F&B Norway

Ecolab is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. Our Food & Beverage (F&B) division helps increase and optimize food quality and plant productivity through innovative solutions in cleaning and disinfection for dairy, meat, poultry, beverage, brewery, fresh produce and other food producers.

We are looking for a commercially strong Account Manager with a technical flair, to join our team. You will be responsible for representing Ecolab's unique and strong hygiene solutions in our Food & Beverage market.

What’s in it For You:

• The opportunity to help customers achieve safe food,  clean water,  abundant energy, and healthy environment.
• Your workday is flexible and independent, planning your own schedule.
• You will work in a strong interdisciplinary team. 
• You receive a thorough introduction to Ecolab's products and business model.
• Extensive opportunities for professional development.
• Company car, computer and mobile phone.

What You Will Do:

• Design and tailor hygiene service solutions based on customer needs with Safe Food and Quality in focus.
• Follow up and execute on hygiene projects.
• Process control related to CIP, including optimization of existing and new facilities.
• Build relationships with new and existing customers, identify and influence decision makers.
• Identify new opportunities during hygiene service activities.
• Document performed work and coordinate hygiene service activities with the different departments internally.
• Follow Ecolab safety guidelines and incident reporting requirements.
• Extensive travelling (> 50%) within the country is expected. 

Location: As the customers are spread throughout the country, the position can be filled anywhere in Norway.

Qualifications: 

• Education within dairy, food or agricultural science, engineering, chemistry or related field is preferred.
• Min. 5 years of experience from the food or beverage industry.
• Solid experience in hygiene requirements in the food industry.
• Structured, self-driven and motivated by creating results.
• Good at communicating and understanding customer needs.
• Enjoy taking initiative and working independently but also functions well as part of a team.
• Fluent in Norwegian (spoken and written) as well as good English skills.
• A valid driver’s license, willingness and possibility to travel for work.

Application deadline: 

Please send in your application as soon as possible via our career site. We go through applications and invite for interviews already during the application period.

For more information regarding the position, you can contact Lars Martin Haugberg, District Manager F&B via email at larsmartin.haugberg@ecolab.com.

About Ecolab’s Food & Beverage Division:

See how Ecolab helps make 27% of the world’s processed food safe. In Food & Beverage, you’ll help a wide variety of food, beverage, and brewery processors manage the increasing risks of foodborne illness and contamination. By providing cleaning and sanitizing programs, animal care products, antimicrobial food tissue treatment and many other operational efficiency and product quality programs, Food & Beverage offers the opportunity to work with a combination of innovation and world-class service.

More information about Ecolab can be found on the page: https://en-no.ecolab.com/.