European Business Manager

**About Livent**:Livent powers the things that power our lives. From the revolution in electric vehicle batteries and mobile devices to the strong, lightweight alloys and advanced polymers that take innovation further, we harness lithium technology to help the world move forward—cleaner, healthier and more sustainably.

For nearly eight decades, we’ve been harnessing lithium’s potential to change the energy landscape. We are a pioneer in the lithium industry and have a rich history of breakthrough innovations and industry achievements, including partnering with Sony Corporation to develop the first ever Lithium-ion battery for commercial use.

Today, Livent builds on our heritage and is a global leader in the lithium industry with a differentiated product offering, proven track record and sustainability profile. Our customer portfolio includes some of the most dynamic companies in the world, including Tesla, BMW Group and LG Chem.

Our customers look to us to meet the most demanding technical requirements, drawing upon our strengths in R&D with our advanced engineering capabilities, industry-leading materials science expertise, fully integrated global supply chain, and passion for continuous improvement and excellence.

Together, we work to safely and sustainably convert lithium’s potential into commercial progress, driving not only incremental improvements and also next generation, transformative opportunities.

For customers at the forefront of the once in a generation shift in how the world powers itself - and the fight against climate change - Livent is the lithium technology partner that’s leading the way.

**Position Summary**:Responsible for the sale of Livent products in the European and UK regions including BuLi, Specialty Organics and Lithium Salts. The position will be located from a home-based office in Switzerland and will be responsible for implementing approved sales strategies for the EU & UK regions. The individual in this role will work closely with Marketing, Inside Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Technology to achieve Livent’s goals.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Ensure the sales budgets are fulfilled on Livent products within the EU & UK regions.
- Provide regular and accurate sales forecasts for review and consideration by Livent’s global/senior sales team.
- Manage relationships with customers.
- Fulfil customer needs by liaising with Supply Chain.
- Understand the external market, industry needs, competitive intelligence, as well as current and developing technology.
- Develop a strong understanding of Livent’s products and capabilities.
- Document competitive intelligence, market and customer information in CRM.
- Communicate and support customer issues and market needs to Inside Sales, Technology, Operations and Supply Chain.
- Act swiftly and proactively to resolve customer complaints.
- Ensure Inside Sales departments are supported in order processing.
- Assist Logistics to facilitate smooth transportation of Livent products across Swiss and non-English speaking European borders.

**Education and Experience**:

- B.S. degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering required.
- 5-10 years' experience in sales and marketing of technical products within the chemical industry required.
- Knowledge of the international chemical industry required, with a minimum of 5 years international business experience.
- Customs clearance experience across Swiss/EU borders desired but not required.
- Fluency in German and English (written and spoken) is required; additional fluency in French (written and spoken) desirable

**Knowledge and Skill Requirements**:

- Knowledge of SAP, CRM and SAP BI (Business Intelligence).
- Experience assisting with large, global multi-year and multi-product customer negotiations.
- Strong independent self-starter with a passion for learning and development.
- Need to have strong interpersonal, presentation, organisational and communication skills including the ability to manage by influence required.
- High energy, ambitious, and desire for growth is essential.

**Work Environment**:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic).

**Safety Requirements**:All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.

**Personal Protective Equipment - **Must wear PPE as required based on job duties**.**

**Travel Required**:Local and international travel required (up to 60%).