START YOUR CAREER with bluesign
Since 2000, bluesign stands for innovation along with social and environmental responsibility. We provide sustainability services and information based on verified data for responsible textile production. This serves to eliminate harmful substances right from the very start of the manufacturing process. Do you share our passion for making this planet a safer place?
BLUESIGN JOB OPENINGS
Be part of the sustainability movement.
Get involved in environmentally friendly and safe textile production.
Bluesign is a globally operating company with headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland. We offer solutions for textile and related industries to produce safe and environmentally friendly products. Our customers include major international brands, chemical suppliers, and textile manufacturers. Our employees are motivated professionals, focused specialists – and you!
To further develop our business in Hong Kong, we are looking for a:
Customer Relation Management – CRM Manager (Hong Kong)
Job Description
If motivating and collaborating with textile supply chain to make systemic progress in the journey of supply chain chemical integrity and sustainability sounds intriguing, then this role may be for you.
This position is for individual who are excited to present sustainability solution to decision makers of companies, support customer along the phase of implementing bluesign system, motivating customer to improve further regardless of their achievement level in the sustainability journey.
The task also includes support activities of promoting value of bluesign system and services to bigger audience through public speeches, media and events.
If you are a confident, yet humble, professional with a passion for enabling customer excellence, a desire for life-long learning, and a principled lifestyle seeking to make the world a better place, then we encourage you to apply to join our team.
This job is extremely challenging yet infinitely rewarding when progress is made. It demands both a high degree of independence as well as collaboration and cooperation.
Major Responsibilities
- Customer relationship management
• Service and support for existing customers
• Customer training
• Coordinating customer related activities - Supporting the regional CRM Director in development of the local market in line with the company strategy and individual budget tasks
- Acquiring new customers and follow-up on inquiries and quotations
- Promoting Bluesign and the bluesign® SYSTEM at trade shows, conferences, presentations, etc.
- Supporting communications in the local market
- Supporting the Technical Service team during screening/audit preparation, on-site visits, and implementation of the bluesign® SYSTEM
Qualifications
- Education background in textile or chemical engineering
- >10 years professional experience in the textile value chain
- Sales or customer relation management experience preferred
- Ability to work independently, collaboratively
- Affinity to sustainability
- Willingness to learn
- High communication and negotiating skills
- Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English language, both written and spoken
- Experience and respect working across different countries, cultures and languages
What's in it for you
- Opportunity to work in the field of sustainability and acquire contacts with a wide variety of organizations
- Role with key responsibilities in a dynamic and global workplace environment
- Great benefits and flexible working hours
- Be a part of an internationally driven organization with a purpose that will broaden your horizon
Interested? Send us your application and corresponding documents, your earliest possible start date, and your salary expectations via e-mail to Ms. Irma Del Vecchio, HR: recruitment@bluesign.com
We look forward to getting to know you.
Be part of the sustainability movement.
Get involved in environmentally friendly and safe textile production.
Bluesign is a globally operating company with headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland. We offer solutions for textile and related industries to produce safe and environmentally friendly products. Our customers include major international brands, chemical suppliers, and textile manufacturers. Our employees are motivated professionals, focused specialists – and you!
To strengthen our bluesign® ACADEMY team in Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Italy or Spain,
we are looking for a
Sustainable Textile Expert / Specialist 100%
Major Responsibilities
- Be the expert for production processes in the textile industry
- Be the expert for sustainability and EHS aspects in the textile industry
- Contribute to the development of the bluesign® CRITERIA
- Give expert advice and support to our system partners
- Conduct external and internal trainings and webinars
- Develop and maintain training and knowledge documents
- Be the subject matter expert (SME) to development e-learnings with our training manager
- Develop new services to raise the value of the bluesign® SYSTEM and the bluesign® ACADEMY
- Networking with relevant stakeholders from associations, NGOs, academia
Ideal Profile
- Technical degree, textile related (e.g. Msc textile engineer, mechanical engineer)
- Proven experience (ideally > 10 years) in the field of textile manufacturing
- Having expert knowledge in the area EHS (Environment, Health and Safety)
- Having in depth knowledge of impacts caused by the textile (e.g. Carbon/water/chemical footprint, air/water emission)
- Being well connected with relevant industry organizations (e.g. Transformers foundation, Textile Exchange, AFIRM)
- Having a good understanding of the sustainability label landscape
- Having profound knowledge of regulatory requirements related to chemicals in the textile industry (e.g. REACh, POPs, Prop 65 regulation)
- Being passionate about sustainable development and education
- Being able to study new subjects in the quickly developing field of sustainability and extract key messages
- Having experience in technical writing
Personal Skills
- Conscientious and organized
- Ability to drive things forward and motivate others
- Open-minded
- Being able to convert complex technical knowledge into appealing trainings/presentations without loss of information
- Good interpersonal and intercultural skills
- Team worker with proven ability to work independently
- Very good command of written and verbal communication in English (German or any other language is a plus)
We offer you a varied and responsible role with lots of freedom in an international and dynamic environment. Great benefits, a modern workplace, and flexible working hours are a matter of course for us in a growing company.
Interested? Send us your application and corresponding documents, your earliest possible start date, and your salary expectations by applying through the following link to Ms. Irma Del Vecchio, HR.
We look forward to getting to know you.
EXPERTISE AROUND THE WORLD
We are a globally active company with headquarters in Switzerland and locations in several countries worldwide. Our international Bluesign team consists of high-performing and experienced professionals in chemistry and textile technology, as well as environmental science and other areas of expertise. The range of job areas includes chemical assessors, consultants, programmers, developers, project managers, and sales and marketing experts. How can you add value to Bluesign?
Share our bluesign values
Would you like to be a part of our success and share our Bluesign values? We look forward to receiving your application for one of our current job openings. We are always happy to receive your resume for future job opportunities as well.
ATTRACTIVE BENEFITS
The Bluesign approach is to provide excellent service and quality to our customers worldwide. To us, service means demonstrating a supportive, helpful and professional attitude, understanding our customers’ needs, and interacting with comprehensive knowledge. We welcome those who share our enthusiasm for data-based solutions that increase environmental responsibility and create business value.
VISUALIZE YOUR FUTURE
At Bluesign, we create a positive working environment and actively promote your personal development. To achieve this goal, we offer you a variety of training and continuing education opportunities, in addition to an attractive compensation package. Work-life balance is not an empty buzzword in our company, but a genuine value of our corporate culture. As part of the SGS Group, we combine the attitudes of a large multinational group and a medium-sized enterprise.
