Sales Support Specialist

Interested in a career that matters?

Do you enjoy turning commercial data, market insights and team priorities into practical support that helps a business grow? Join our Food & Beverage BioSolutions team for Japan and Korea, where you will support key customer relationships, new business opportunities and the execution of regional and global growth strategies.

In this highly visible role, you will connect sales support, marketing coordination and team operations while collaborating across Sales, Marketing and Technical Service.

The role & your impact

As Sales Support Specialist, you will provide operational and analytical support to the Food & Beverage BioSolutions team in Japan and Korea. Your contribution will help the team make informed commercial decisions, coordinate customer-facing activities and run effective day-to-day operations.

Your key responsibilities in this role

• Support forecasting and annual budgeting processes through accurate data preparation and analysis.
• Monitor commercial KPIs, including opportunity pipelines, sales performance, pricing and distributor sales.
• Support effective meetings by capturing decisions and following up on agreed actions.
• Coordinate consumer research with Marketing Managers and external research partners, from design and execution through analysis.
• Gather and share market and customer insights from industry publications, market reports and relevant external databases.
• Help plan, deliver and evaluate seminars, trade shows, workshops and other customer-facing activities, while coordinating off-site meetings, visitors and sample logistics.

What you’ll need to be successful in this role

• A bachelor’s degree (BA or BSc).
• Relevant experience in business administration or a closely related support role.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to analyze data and present findings clearly.
• Native or fluent Japanese and fluent or business-level English.
• Strong analytical thinking, collaboration and communication skills.
• A proactive service mindset and the ability to understand and support the needs of commercial teams.

Additional skills & interests we value

• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, KPI monitoring or commercial analysis.
• Interest in consumer research, market intelligence and customer engagement activities.
• A friendly, open and team-oriented approach.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional activities or working with external partners.

What we offer you

You will join a collaborative team working to grow the Food & Beverage BioSolutions business in Japan and Korea. The role offers broad exposure across Sales, Marketing and Technical Service, with the opportunity to contribute to commercial analysis, market understanding, customer engagement and team operations.

Working conditions

• Full-time role, 7.25 hours per day, with flexible working arrangements.
• The role is primarily office-based and requires working from both the Makuhari and Mita offices.
• A few overnight trips may be expected each year, mainly for team off-site meetings.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career

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Our History

In 2024, Chr. Hansen and Novozymes joined forces to form Novonesis.

We are 10,000 people worldwide whose expertise spans more than 30 different industries. All around the world our biosolutions already create value for thousands of customers and benefit the planet. Our biosolutions enable feeding and fueling the world more sustainably, from healthy and sustainable nutrition to biofuel. Our biosolutions also reduce the use of fossil-based resources, chemicals, energy and water. And this is just the beginning.