FitWood of Scandinavia creates a new category into fitness equipment market and aims to be the global category leader in the new category. Scandinavian design and sustainability are in the core of FitWood’s products which are developed to fit to the interior of people’s homes and utilize Finnish wood as their main material. The 2015 launched startup is conquering the world based in Tampere, Finland. Shortly after the launch, FitWood has already gained retailers from Germany, Austria, UK and Finland, where the biggest retailers are Prisma and Intersport.
The mission of FitWood is to improve the wellbeing of people by fitness equipment which help them get into better physical condition through a great exercising experience, bring good cheer by improving the coziness of their home interior due to beautiful Scandinavian design, and by creating good conscience by safe and healthy materials which represent sustainability.
We are looking for an export sales generator who will share our values, fit into our corporate culture and is thriving to carry out our mission. Your job will be to get new retailers and distributors for us globally and get our company established in the most important market areas. In addition to taking care of the most important customers by yourself, you will be acquiring and leading other export sales people and agents all around the world. In other words you are building our sales organization from quite nothing to something quite great.
If you’re thinking why and if you should apply, here are few reasons:
– This will be the most interesting job you ever had
– You will be doing something good and changing the world into a better place
– You will be able to travel
– You will meet famous people and work with them
– You will grow professionally and as a person
– You will have responsibility and be trusted
– You will have a creative highly motivated team around you
– You will get rewarded when you and we succeed
We require from you:
– Excellent language skills
– High integrity and accountability
– Enthusiasm for wellbeing, sports and fitness
– Ability to lead yourself and people working for you
– Goal oriented mentality
– Excellent customer service
– Results
You love sport and fitness and probably have a background in competitive sports. You have experience in B2B sales and you have achieved results. You have great business senses and ability to negotiate big deals. You are ready to travel when needed, but also know how to use contemporary technical tools to avoid unnecessary trips. You can work efficiently and independently even from distance and get the best out of your colleagues.
We appreciate if you are familiar with online sales as it is important part of our company sales strategy. You are a natural networker who will enjoy helping us find brand ambassadors suitable to our concept. Working with famous people is natural to you and you yourself might be quite interesting person too.
If you think you are the right person, just apply before 22nd of August 2016! We are planning to fill the position during September and appreciate everyone who will have the guts to go for this. If you don’t think you are the right pick for Manager but got excited about our company and would like to help us with our export and sales, please feel welcome to share your idea – we might have a job for you too! Working is possible based in Tampere or Helsinki region.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Applications with title “Export recruiting” to email address before 22.8.2016.
