Assistant Area Sales Manager

Do you want to be part of a team that provides seamless sales support while actively exploring new markets and fostering strong relationships with potential customers worldwide?

If so, we believe you will be a perfect fit as Area Sales Manager Assistant at ABENA!

As Area Sales Manager Assistant ABENA, your key responsibility is to support our Area Sales Manager (ASM) with various tasks and build strong personal relationships with our customers while providing them with top-class service. As the daily backup for our ASM for markets in Africa, the Middle East, and India, or Eastern Europe and Latin America, you are motivated by dialogue with people from diverse cultures and have a genuine interest in understanding and serving these customers in the best possible way.

You see it as an exciting challenge to identify and engage new customers in emerging markets, thriving in an international environment where you enjoy the freedom to plan your workday independently. While the role primarily provides back-end support, it also offers the opportunity to take ownership of customer relationships and, if you are capable, evolve into a full end-to-end sales role.

In the department, we focus on opportunities to access new markets in line with ABENA’s current strategy. At ABENA, you will have a varied and challenging workday in a dynamic organization where commitment and visionary leadership have brought the company to a leading position.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Search for new potential customers in new markets
• Analyze customer needs in relation to ABENA’s product range
• Update price lists and prepare quotations in collaboration with the ASM
• Assist the ASM with various tasks, such as shipping product samples, preparing statistics, and visit reports
• Support customers with knowledge, pricing, etc., when they participate in tenders
• Arrange, coordinate, and participate in customer visits at our premises

What we hope you bring
The most important factor for succeeding in this position is your drive and approach. We hope you bring fearlessness in reaching out to potential customers – if this gives you motivation, please highlight so in your application. We hope that you can see yourself in a sales role, but also a sales supporting role, making sure that everything runs smoothly and our existing customers experience no hurdles in their interactions with ABENA.

There are several paths to this role, but we prefer that you have a few years of experience in a similar position focused on international sales. Amongst other things, we hope that you bring:

• Inspiring motivation for landing sales and great customer contact
• A service-minded approach and always ready to help where needed
• Structure and interest in sales as some of your key strengths
• The ability to comfortably picking up the phone and talking to both existing and potential export customers
• Experience with standard Microsoft programs and perhaps know Axapta/SAP
• Experience in Salesforce is an advantage
• The ability to communicate confidently and positively in Danish and English, both written and spoken, German or other languages are an advantage

Your Team, Our Culture and Values
At ABENA International, you will become part of a team of about 25 colleagues who take great pride in delivering first-class service to our 100+ international distributors. We tackle daily challenges both collaboratively and independently. We have an open and informal atmosphere where we work hard and laugh together when the opportunity arises. We help each other, and we are all focused on being good and decent colleagues who truly believe that work should be enjoyable. It is most important to underline the fact that we succeed as a team, always making sure to learn from each other and celebrate our success together!

Your leader at ABENA will be Area Sales Manager Ahmet Solak who describes his leadership style as follows:

"I lead our team with a strong focus on delivering the best possible service to our customers, while creating a workplace where work is enjoyable and everyone takes responsibility. I believe that providing the right tools and granting customer ownership to all team members are key to continuous improvement and growth. I offer a high degree of freedom, with the clear expectation that everyone takes responsibility and actively contributes to our shared goals. I encourage initiative, ownership, and the sharing of ideas that can improve our team and enhance the experience for ABENA’s customers."

At ABENA, we combine professionalism with a warm, people-first culture where collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement are necessary parts of everyday life. We take pride in delivering high-quality work with integrity, guided by our core values of trust, fairness, and cooperation. These values shape how we lead, support one another, and create meaningful impact for our customers and communities.

We look forward to receiving your application
If you are interested in the position, please send your CV as soon as possible. We review applications as we receive them and will close the search once we have found our new colleague.

If you are curious to know more about the job, you are welcome to contact International Director, Wholesale Claus Espersen at +45 5158 1868.

Application deadline: Apply no later than 14. December 2025

Department: Egelund 35 6200 Aabenraa