Presentation:
Connecting Food is revolutionizing the food industry by enabling brands to ensure total transparency of their production chains: from the field to the end-consumer.

Our goal? To make food meaningful again: to enable consumers to know where the food they eat comes from, along with how and by whom it has been produced.

Our solution? The first digital platform to trace and audit in real time 100% of the products in a food chain. The supply chain information is audited and then recorded on the blockchain, a state-of-the-art technology that makes the information tamper-proof.

Our customers? Farmers, agri-food brands and retailers. By subscribing to our SaaS platform, customers benefit from a quality control dashboard to manage their production internally, and a mobile application for their end-consumers, allowing them to easily communicate the origin and the production method, and any fair-trade or RSE efforts.

Job Description:
In order to accelerate our growth in Italy, we are looking for an Italian Country Manager with strong sales/negotiation skills, communication and organizational. You must be a motivated self-starter with the ability to work with little or no supervision and possess the ability and desire to build a business from the ground up.

In addition to these capabilities, Country Managers should be able to do the following:
• Sales development– The Country Manager will be in charge of new customer acquisition, actively seeking out new customers, and later as our business grows, participate in forecasting, maintaining budgets, recruiting and training staff
• Regional expertise – The Country Manager must possess a large network of contacts in the Italian agrifood industry (cooperatives, brands, retailers, etc)
• Strategic planning – The Country Manager will be responsible for developing the sales plan for Italy. He/She will also be in charge of building the company’s brand, as well as advising on product positioning and marketing opportunities (conferences, trade shows, events, etc)

Why apply?

• Join a unique startup with an ambitious project that is about to explode
• Use your skills to have a real impact on the sales cycle and the achievement of the company’s objectives
• Have the opportunity to build and take ownership of our Italian team

Profile sought (please read carefully):

• Higher education degree with a specialization in sales and/or agri-food preferred
• Based in Italy, with an existing network in the food industry (mandatory)
• 10 or more years’ experience in pre-sales and sales roles (mandatory)
• Experience working with SaaS business models preferred
• Bilingual French/Italian or English/Italian (Native Italian is absolutely necessary, and if you speak all three languages it’s even better!)
• Ability to listen, identify prospects, synthesize and restitute in order to understand and respond to customer needs
• Goal-driven, with high standards
• Proactive, organized and autonomous

Interview Process:

• First interview with the business development team: telephone / video
• Interview with our COO
• Meeting with the founders
• Offer!