Sales Coordinator to Lignin Industries

Are you interested in a position where you are in charge of sales administration and execution, and at the same time have the opportunity of making a true impact on the environmental challenges by reducing fossil-based plastics?

We are looking for an experienced and well-organized Sales Coordinator to Lignin Industries AB, to provide necessary support to the sales team. If you have experience from administrative tasks and thrives in a broad role this is the right opportunity for you!
Lignin Industries is a young, innovative, and fast-growing company in the biotech sector. The company have patented a revolutionary technology transforming lignin, the most abundant unused biopolymer on earth, into a renewable and functional biomaterial replacing fossil-based plastics and aims to supply the plastic industry with a high performing material that will be converted into plastic bags, packaging materials, bottles, etcetera.

Job description
As a Sales Coordinator, you will have an important role in administratively supporting the sales team and providing customers with a high level of service. The role is broad and is characterized by a great deal of personal responsibility with varied tasks. You will work with everything from delivery monitoring, order handling and sales administration to contact with our customers.

Responsibilities
The Sales Coordinators is responsible for the administrative tasks and have an important role in the sales team with the goal to enable a rapid growth of Lignin Industries.
In summary, your responsibilities include:

• Handle the processing of all orders with accuracy and timeliness
• Delivery monitoring, including packing smaller shipments
• Handle customer invoices
• Sales and project administration
• Inform clients of unforeseen delays or problems
• Maintaining supplies of sales presentation materials, including slides and brochures
• Market research of new markets and prospects
• Customer management
• Sales support
• Contract management

Qualifications
• 1-3 years´ experience in sales; experience as a sales coordinator or in other administrative positions will be considered a plus
• Excellent computer skills (MS Office)
• Proficiency in English
• Well-organized and responsible with an aptitude in problem-solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A team player with high level of dedication

It is meritorious with:
• Experience from CRM systems
• Experience from sales in startups
• Experience in international sales
• Experience of legal documents
• Experience in the plastics/bioplastics industry
• Additional language skills (Spanish, German, French, Chinese)

Personal characteristics
To succeed in the role, we see that you are solution-oriented, communicative, and has a high level of structure. Further you are unpretentious, has a high sense of responsibility and can take your own initiatives. You are a communicative person and can easily communicate in both speech and writing in English. You enjoy working at a high pace in close collaboration with your colleagues.

You are offered
You will be part of an agile, committed and high-performing team that works closely together. The scope of the service is full-time and the working hours are covered during the day, Monday to Friday. And You will have the ability to work partially remote. As the selection process and interviews take place on an ongoing basis, you are warmly welcome to submit your application as soon as possible via www.jurek.se. For questions regarding the position, please contact responsible recruiter Hanna Broström at hanna.brostrom@jurek.se

About Lignin industries AB
The forest is a renewable resource. Lignin is a by-product from the pulping industry. Globally 80 million tonnes are processed in the pulping industry, making it the largest natural by-product on earth. Today, 99% of the produced lignin is burnt for its energy value.
Lignin Industries convert lignin so it can be blended with virgin and recycled thermoplastics creating new types of bioplastics. For every 1 kg of fossil-based plastics replaced by RENOL® we decrease CO2 up to 6 kgs released into the atmosphere.
https://www.lignin.se/