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Account Director, EMEA Beauty

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Proven track record of winning new business and growing strategic customer accounts within the Beauty, Personal Care, Consumer Health or related sectors.
  • Strong understanding of the Beauty and Personal Care market, with the ability to identify opportunities, build relationships and convert prospects into long-term customers.
  • Demonstrated success managing complex, long-cycle sales opportunities and influencing senior stakeholders in international, matrixed organisations.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and commercial planning skills, with strong discipline around pipeline management, forecasting and follow-up.

Responsibilities

  • Win new strategic accounts.
  • Grow and develop existing accounts across Europe.
  • Create targeted prospecting plans and execute strategic sales initiatives.
  • Manage long and complex sales cycles through strategic planning, targeted actions, and consistent follow-up.

Key facts

Other skills

  • Relationship Building
  • Organizational Skills
  • Communication
  • Self-Motivation
  • Resilience

About the company

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Catalent

Catalent Inc. (NYSE: CTLT), an S&P 500® company, is the global leader in enabling pharma, biotech, and consumer health partners to optimize product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply for patients around the world. With broad and deep scale and expertise in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent is a preferred industry partner for personalized medicines, consumer health brand extensions, and blockbuster drugs. Catalent supports our partners in introducing 200 new products and manufacturing over 70 billion doses each year. Since becoming a publicly traded company in 2014, we have grown to become a community of approximately 19,000+ workers who support over 7,000 products for over 1,000 customers around the world. We share a common goal: to put patients first and help people around the world live better and healthier lives. Catalyst + Talent. Our name combines these ideas. From drug and biologic development services to delivery technologies to supply solutions, we are the catalyst for your success. We have the deepest expertise, the broadest offerings, and the most innovative technologies to help you get more molecules to market faster, enhance product performance, and provide superior, reliable manufacturing and packaging results. more products. better treatments. reliably supplied.™ Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Join us! Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent’s advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to life. Grow with us. Be challenged. Make a personal impact. Visit https://careers.catalent.com/us/en to explore career opportunities

Company details

Company typeXLarge
Company size10001

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Job description

We have an opportunity for an Account Director, Beauty EMEA to join our team. This role focuses on driving new business development across the EMEA region while managing an existing portfolio of Beauty customers. It combines strategic account management with proactive engagement of premium Beauty brands. The position requires a hands-on approach, strong commercial skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, international environment.

Location: France-based, remote working. Preference for candidates located within easy reach of Paris or a major international airport.

Travel: Up to 50% across EMEA

The Role

  • Win new strategic accounts
  • Grow and develop existing accounts across Europe.
  • Create targeted prospecting plans and execute strategic sales initiatives.
  • Manage long and complex sales cycles through strategic planning, targeted actions, and consistent follow-up.
  • Identify and engage the right stakeholders, including Marketing, Research and Development, and senior leaders or founders, within small and international enterprises.
  • Travel regularly throughout Western Europe.

The Candidate

Minimum Requirements

  • Proven track record of winning new business and growing strategic customer accounts within the Beauty, Personal Care, Consumer Health or related sectors.
  • Strong understanding of the Beauty and Personal Care market, with the ability to identify opportunities, build relationships and convert prospects into long-term customers.
  • Demonstrated success managing complex, long-cycle sales opportunities and influencing senior stakeholders in international, matrixed organisations.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and commercial planning skills, with strong discipline around pipeline management, forecasting and follow-up.
  • Self-motivated, resilient and able to work autonomously while balancing business development and account growth objectives.
  • Fluent in English and willing to travel across the EMEA region.

Preferred Skills & Background

  • Experience within a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization environment and/or the Beauty, Personal Care, Home Care or Nutraceutical sectors.
  • Existing network and industry relationships within the Beauty and Personal Care market.
  • Ability to thrive in a remote, international and matrixed environment, working collaboratively across functions, regions and cultures.
  • Strong organisational skills, a proactive approach and the ability to work independently with a high degree of accountability.
  • Additional European language skills would be advantageous.

Catalent offer des opportunités enrichissantes pour faire avancer votre carrière! Rejoignez le leader mondial du développement et de la production de médicaments et aidez-nous à proposer plus de 7 000 produits qui sauvent et améliorent la vie des patients du monde entier. Catalent est une société internationale passionnante et en pleine croissance où les employés travaillent directement avec des sociétés pharmaceutiques, biopharmaceutiques et de santé grand public de toutes tailles pour faire progresser de nouveaux médicaments, du développement précoce aux essais cliniques et à la mise sur le marché. Catalent produit plus de 70 milliards de doses par an, et chacune sera utilisée par quelqu'un qui compte sur nous. Rejoignez-nous pour faire la différence.

   

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Avis aux représentants des agences et des cabinets de recherche : Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) n'accepte pas les curriculum vitae non sollicités d'agences et/ou de cabinets de recherche pour cette offre d'emploi. Les curriculum vitae soumis à tout employé de Catalent par une agence tierce et/ou une société de recherche sans un accord de recherche écrit et signé valide, deviendront la propriété exclusive de Catalent. Aucuns frais ne seront payés si un candidat est embauché pour ce poste à la suite d'une recommandation non sollicitée d'une agence ou d'un cabinet de recherche. Merci.

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