Sales Executive - Food & Beverage, Cosmetics & Personal Care
Location
Italy
Posted
5 days ago
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0
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Sales Executive - Food & Beverage, Cosmetics & Personal Care
Centric Software
Role Description We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated Sales Executive to drive growth across Centric Software’s Food & Beverage and Cosmetics & Personal Care business in the EuroMed region. This role will focus on selling Centric PLM into enterprise accounts, with a major emphasis on cosmetics, beauty, personal care, and food & beverage organizations. - This sales role requires a proven ability to build pipeline, develop executive relationships, navigate complex buying committees, and close high-value software deals. - The ideal candidate brings strong experience selling enterprise software into complex, process-driven industries and understands the challenges behind product innovation, formulation, packaging, compliance, quality, sourcing, supplier collaboration, and speed to market in the F&B and CPC sectors. Qualifications - 8+ years of successful enterprise software sales experience, preferably selling PLM, ERP, SCM, supply chain, product development, manufacturing, retail technology, CPG technology, or similar enterprise platforms. - Proven track record of selling complex, high-value enterprise software solutions into large, strategic accounts. - Strong hunter profile with demonstrated success prospecting, building pipeline, acquiring new logos, and closing net-new business. - Experience selling into Food & Beverage, Cosmetics, Beauty, Personal Care, CPG, Retail, Manufacturing, Product Development, R&D, Packaging, Regulatory, Quality, or Supply Chain organizations. - Strong understanding of complex enterprise sales cycles, including multi-stakeholder decision processes, executive engagement, business case development, procurement, legal, and negotiation. - Experience working in a partner-influenced or partner-driven sales environment is strongly preferred. - Experience with PLM is strongly preferred; experience with Centric PLM or adjacent enterprise applications is a plus. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and lead internal teams through complex sales pursuits. - Experience preparing proposals and responding to RFI/RFP processes. - Experience with value-based, consultative, or solution-selling methodologies. - Ability to travel regularly across North America. Requirements - Drive net-new revenue and strategic growth across EuroMed Food & Beverage, Cosmetics, Beauty & Personal Care accounts. - Build and manage a strong enterprise pipeline through proactive prospecting, account targeting, executive outreach, partner collaboration, industry events, referrals, and marketing-generated opportunities. - Own the full enterprise sales cycle from initial engagement through discovery, qualification, solution alignment, business case development, negotiation, and close. - Act as a true hunter, focused on acquiring new logos, expanding Centric’s presence, and developing long-term enterprise account opportunities. - Lead complex sales processes involving executive stakeholders, functional leaders, IT teams, procurement, transformation teams, and cross-functional buying committees. - Position Centric PLM as a strategic platform for managing product innovation, formulation, specifications, packaging, compliance, claims, labeling, supplier collaboration, quality, costing, and speed to market. - Develop tailored, value-based sales strategies based on each customer’s business challenges, operating model, growth priorities, and transformation goals. - Orchestrate internal teams, including pre-sales, solution consulting, business consulting, delivery, marketing, alliances, customer success, product, and leadership, to develop and win opportunities. - Collaborate with partners, system integrators, consulting firms, and technology ecosystem partners to identify opportunities, strengthen customer engagement, and accelerate sales cycles. - Leverage Centric’s global resources, customer references, CPC and F&B expertise, and industry credibility to support sales campaigns. - Prepare and deliver high-quality proposals, presentations, business cases, and RFI/RFP responses. - Maintain strong pipeline discipline, accurate forecasting, stakeholder mapping, opportunity strategy, and deal documentation. - Represent Centric Software at customer meetings, industry events, trade shows, conferences, and partner engagements. Benefits - Equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
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