Export Area Manager

Role Overview

Lakmé is expanding and seeking an Export Area Manager responsible for increasing the company's footprint in international markets by identifying and managing distributors, providing them with partnership tools to meet set objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain strong relationships and continual follow-up with existing distributors.
• Coordinate training sessions and promotional activities alongside the training and marketing teams.
• Represent and organize company participation in industry trade fairs, events, and forums.
• Identify and secure new distributors worldwide.
• Contribute to defining and preparing the annual sales budget for assigned markets.
• Monitor the area budget, analyzing deviations and suggesting corrective actions.
• Prepare monthly and yearly reports for management review.

What We Offer

• An ambitious project with immediate positive impact potential.
• A professional, well-established environment committed to continuous improvement.
• Work from our headquarters in Sant Just Desvern, collaborating closely with all company departments.
• A competitive salary based on proven experience.
• Benefits include flexible working hours, intensive schedule every Friday throughout the year, telework policy permitting 8 remote workdays per month, and a meal card.

Candidate Requirements

• Excellent English skills (minimum C1 level).
• Strong commercial mindset with excellent communication, public speaking, persuasion, and negotiation skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally approximately 40% of the time.
• Analytical ability to interpret sales data, extract insights, and present findings effectively to management.
• Team-oriented, prioritizing collective success alongside personal achievement.
• A minimum of 3 years of autonomous commercial experience managing client portfolios.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the cosmetics or related industry is advantageous.

About Lakmé Cosmetics

With the motto “Family Tradition, International Vision,” Lakmé is a hair cosmetics manufacturer driven by multicultural reality and entrepreneurial innovation. Operating commercially in over 90 countries, the company prioritizes sustainability, minimizing environmental impact across its value chain, and fostering trusting, long-term partnerships with collaborators.

The organization is globally oriented and believes that improving culture and products stems from embracing diverse talent and fostering an inclusive workplace. Lakmé encourages candidates regardless of gender, origin, religion, abilities, age, experience, or sexual orientation, committed fully to equal opportunity employment.