Lignin Industries – New Business Sales

Join our impact! We are building the most scalable biobased material to reduce carbon emissions, this is a job with purpose where you get to solve one of the planet’s biggest challenges.

You need a passion for driving sustainable solutions to the plastic industry and an energy that matches the fast-track pace our business is on.

We´re looking for a highly motivated individual within New Business Sales to manage our growing material portfolio. If you want to establish requirements for new products, determine features and follow the product from development to launch, we want you as part of our team.

Lignin Industries is a young, innovative, and fast-growing company in the Greentech sector. The company has patented a revolutionary technology transforming lignin, one of the most abundant unused biobased polymers on earth, into a renewable and functional biobased material replacing fossil plastics, driving superior potential to reduce CO2 emissions.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS

• We see that you have a technical interest and see possibilities instead of boundaries
• Manage to open doors to the industrial segment through your existing network
• Industry knowledge
• Generate business opportunities through network/lead generation
• Communicate at all levels of a decision-making process
• Identify the customer needs and technical requirements
• Manage opportunities through development, evaluation, and commercialisation of new or modified material grades and support efforts in continuous improvement
• all over the data – make intelligent decisions backed up by qualified insights and market data
• Have the character to fail successfully – take immediate learnings to help strengthen our knowledge base and develop successful solutions.
• Attend relevant conferences and trade shows.

In this role, you will report to our Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and work as part of a cross-functional team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Worked with direct solution sales or similar roles for +5 years, ideally in cross-functional teams
• Experience from relevant industry such as plastics and packaging
• Project-oriented mindset.
• Customer focused and solution-oriented with an affinity for data analytics.
• Communicates fluently both written and spoken in English. Swedish (additional languages skills are meritorious)

This is a full-time job based in Sweden with some presence at the office and factory in Knivsta. It is possible to work hybrid and flex.

YOUR PROFILE

• You take an analytical, hypothesis-based approach to problem-solving.
• You are curious and want to understand how things work so that you can make them better.
• You are eager to collaborate and learn from different functions.
• You can break down problems and identify where to start in order to quickly deliver solutions and impact.
• You are a great communicator and can turn complex concepts into a language anyone can understand, both internally and externally.
• You are humble and build strong and trusting relationships with both customers and colleagues.
• You are hands-on and willing to do what is needed to help the team.
• You have a deeply personal motivation to reduce the usage of fossil-based plastics in our world.

ABOUT LIGNIN INDUSTRIES

Lignin Industries is an innovative and fast-growing company in the greentech sector, with a patented revolutionary technology of transforming lignin, the most abundant unused biopolymer on earth, into a renewable and functional biomaterial replacing fossil-based plastics and thereby reducing CO2 emissions radically.

The company has 21 employees and the headquarter is situated in Knivsta, north of Stockholm City.

We are an entrepreneurial driven company in a fast moving environment.

HOW TO APPLY

In this recruitment, Lignin Industries works with Planet Consulting. For more information about the position, please contact responsible recruitment consultant Joachim Marmstedt, joachim.marmstedt@academicsearch.se or 0768 502 732 or our researcher, Clara Granlund, clara.granlund@academicsearch.se. We are interviewing continuously so we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.

Planet Consulting is one of Scandinavia’s most meritorious companies within Greentech recruitments and Executive Search & Interim Management. Our focus is on people with documented managerial and specialist skills and we have a close collaboration with both national and international companies with strong brands. Planet Consulting is a sub brand to Academic Search

Our idea is to combine the most suitable people with the toughest challenges at some of the most interesting companies in Sweden. Our values are KNOWLEDGE, COMMITMENT, RESPONSIBILITY AND COOPERATION. It is through these that we make a difference in all our relationships.

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