About this role
About you We are looking for an outgoing and organized person with experience in sales, and we believe you have been successful through high activity, persistence and knowledge of our industry. You are a proactive, entrepreneurial, flexible person with an eye for business potential. We believe that you enjoy working independently and in a fast pace environment. Establishing new relationships and networks is a large part of the job. To succeed in this position we believe you enjoy customer contact and are service minded. You are fluent in Swedish as well as having good knowledge of English and the MS Office tools. As this position involves daily reporting of sales data into Excel and Argus, a good system knowledge is required. You will have clear budget responsibility and it is therefore important that you have a strong drive to succeed. You have a driving license and secondary education, while higher education is considered an advantage. Key Accountabilities As a Sales Representative, you will work towards increasing sales for the Barilla and Wasa brands in your district. Your daily tasks will include store visits to present news, campaigns as well as stocking shelves and creating attractive exposures. You will upload your daily sales activities into a tracking systems so that the impact of the sales can be collected. We work actively with space management to enhance the stores profitability in our categories, and provide solid support and advice to the stores to optimize the shelves where our products are represented. In this role you are the first hand contact and representative towards the stores. Barilla Worldwide Founded in Parma in 1877 out of a shop that made bread and pasta, Barilla is today among the top Italian food groups: leader for pasta in the world, pasta sauces in continental Europe, bakery products in Italy, and the crisp bread business in Scandinavia. With a turnover of 3.2 Billion Euro and more than 8,100 employees, we are one of the most successful food-producers. The Barilla Group owns 29 productions sites (14 in Italy and 15 abroad) and exports to more than 100 countries worldwide. Barilla has one way of doing business: “Good for You, Good for the Planet.” Our corporate headquarters are located in Parma, Italy, and the Northern European Office (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and The Baltics) is in Stockholm.