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The Sales Manager Nordics & Eastern Europe is responsible for achieving sales and profitability targets across the Nordic and Eastern European markets. The role ensures a high level of customer service to distributors, dealers, and OEM partners, while actively developing market share through new customer acquisition and strengthening existing relationships. The Sales Manager plays a key role in implementing the commercial strategy within these regions, contributing to Lankhorst Taselaar’ s long-term growth in line with Brunswick’s strategic priorities. The role will be based in Heerenveen, with moderate travel across the regions.
Job Responsibility:
Contributes to the commercial strategy and regional sales plan for the Nordics & Eastern Europe
Develops and executes the annual sales budget for the Nordics & EE region
Monitors monthly sales performance, identifies deviations, and initiates corrective actions
Develops appropriate control, performance measures and generates reports
Directs the annual planning, expense and budgeting processes for the sales of the export markets
Leads and manages Nordics & EE account managers and/or agents
Manages key customer accounts and distributors
Identifies and develops new business opportunities
Gathers and maintains competitive product pricing information
Approves proposed deviations from the set prices and discounts
Supports local sales representatives, agents, and internal customer service teams
Collects, analyzes, and maintains competitive market data and pricing intelligence
Provides monthly and quarterly sales performance reports
Builds a culture of accountability and performance excellence
Ensures compliance with company policies, quality standards, ethical guidelines, and health, safety & environmental (HSE) practices
Strengthens collaboration with Brunswick Marine Europe (BME) and other Brunswick Business Groups (BBG)
Requirements:
Bachelor or master’s degree with business or marketing orientation, or relevant experience in a similar role
5-year experience in sales management
Experience with B2B sales of technical consumer goods
Good working knowledge of MS Office and excellent on MS Excel
English language (both written & verbal)
Good coordination skills
Good numerical aptitude
Excellent verbal and written presentation and communication skills
Analytical and result-oriented
Open to travel/business trips
Out of the box thinking
Good organizational skills
Stress resistant
Team player and teambuilder
Nice to have:
Experience in the marine equipment industry is a plus
Any other European language represents a good asset