External Account Manager - BES

Riyadh,Saudi Arabia April 16, 2026 Full Time Workday Recruiting

Do you have a strong sales ability?

 

If you consider yourself as well with the answer of ‘Yes!’, you are about to find an attractive opportunity! Brenntag KSA looks for an hands-on External Account Manager for Brenntag Essentials Division who will be an intricate part of the commercial perception, responsible for developing and delivering value-added sales activities to our company’s daily practice.

 

This position is offered for KSA Nationals who are Chemical Engineering graduates.

 

The position is based in Riyadh.

 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION & REQUIRED BUSINESS ACUMEN

 

 

- Managing the daily tasks, follow-ups and practices of a number of accounts via directly selling commodity chemicals and raw materials.

 

- Realizing sales targets & objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products.

 

- Managing suppliers in regards of products-base sales initiatives and targets.

 

- Increasing the value of existing customers while attracting new ones in regards of changing expectations, market facts and company policies and targets while planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.

 

- Maintaining sales volume, product mix, and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends.

 

- Promoting the company’s products/services addressing or predicting customer’s related-financial status, objectives, and needs.

 

- Realizing personal financial targets and maintaining gross-margin based profit flow in sales.

 

- Preparing relevant weekly, monthly, quarterly sales, margin, profit reports.

 

- Delivering accurate sales forecasts on a periodic basis and establishing/managing financials for the business area.

 

 

 

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

 

- Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering, preferably from reputable universities. This is mandatory for this role. The candidates who are not Chemical Engineers should not apply to the role.

 

- Min 2 years of trackable experience in sales,

 

- Fluency in English and excellent numeric and financial-reinterpretation skill set.

 

- Valid driving license.

 

- Ability to maintain long-lasting relations in customer management with excellent communication and process management skills.

 

- Pro-active self-starter, willing to accept responsibility for business tasks.

 

 

Contact Person:

 

Rawan M.

 

[email protected]                                                                               

 

Human Resources Team Lead Brenntag Saudi Arabia                                     

 

 

Brenntag provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees of all backgrounds and identities to create a workplace where difference is valued because it forms a resilient and more innovative organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.

 


 

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How to Get Hired at Brenntag

  • Brenntag is the world's largest chemicals distributor, ~17,500 employees, ~€16-17B revenue 2024, headquartered in Essen, Germany, listed on the DAX 40, and led by CEO Christian Kohlpaintner since January 2020.
  • The company is organized into two divisions — Essentials (commodity chemicals, larger volumes, thinner margins, logistics-heavy) and Specialties (life sciences, food, personal care, CASE, technical sales, richer margins) — and is in the middle of a multi-year operational separation that may eventually become a demerger.
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