Join Ecolab and lead the future of our luxury hospitality offering in Switzerland. In this strategic role, you will comprehend the key needs of the luxury segment, build high‑level partnerships, advise senior leaders, and deliver integrated and innovative solutions that elevate guest experience, sustainability, and operational excellence across the luxury hotel segment.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Create a winning plan focussed on ownership, program expertise and customer knowledge to demonstrate great in our luxury segment business.
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Drive customer experience through innovative and sustainable solutions, digitally enabled insights, training and capability-building for customer teams
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Translate customer challenges into tailored and integrated Ecolab solutions.
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Expand Ecolab’s presence in the segment and drive sustainable growth by leveraging Ecolab’s Total Value Delivered approach.
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Establish the Swiss luxury hospitality segment as the clear reference in Europe to pioneer and showcase Ecolab’s innovative solutions and value delivered.
Executive Relationship Management
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Build and maintain trusted, long-term relationships with key stakeholders, including General Managers, Executive Committees, Owners and Investment Groups.
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Position Ecolab as a strategic advisor for hygiene excellence, guest experience, food safety, sustainability, and operational efficiency.
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Lead partnership discussions at C-level, including contract frameworks, partnership models, and multi-site agreements.
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Act as the face of Ecolab at relevant luxury hospitality forums, industry events, and networking platforms in Switzerland.
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Advocate Ecolab’s partnership with EHL – École hôtelière de Lausanne, by strengthening collaboration in education, innovation and thought leadership
Internal Leadership & Collaboration
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Be the business and segment lead to leverage European and Global programs and resources to accelerate your success.
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Collaborate closely with service, technical, marketing, digital, and supply chain teams to ensure consistent value delivery and flawless execution.
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Share market insights, customer feedback and competitive intelligence to support strategic development.
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Serve as a role model for Ecolab’s values, ethics, and customer-centric mindset.
Qualifications:
Professional Background
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Proven track record from working directly in Swiss luxury hospitality, strategic account management or business development within luxury lodging.
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Demonstrated success in consultative, value-based selling models.
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Existing, well-established network within the Swiss luxury hospitality industry, supported by documented sales and partnership successes.
Skills & Competencies
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Strong executive presence with the ability to engage credibly at C-level to open doors and gain agreements.
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Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
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Strategic mindset with the ability to translate complex solutions into customer value.
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High level of autonomy combined with strong collaboration in a matrix organization.
Language & Mobility Requirements
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Fluent in French, English, and German (spoken and written)
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Valid Swiss work permit (mandatory)
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Valid Swiss driving license (passenger car) and willingness to travel within Switzerland and occasionally Europe.
What’s in it For You:
- Opportunity to lead and shape the future of luxury hospitality partnerships in Switzerland.
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Following success in Switzerland, support the expansion of this customer proposition across Europe.
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A new role focused on impact, innovation, and long-term value creation, not transactional selling.
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Work for a purpose-driven company committed to sustainability, safety, and excellence
About Ecolab:
At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at our nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Our solutions not only enhance operational efficiency but also contribute to sustainability and public health, making a positive impact on the world. We are committed to eliminating unnecessary complexities and embracing a beginner's mindset, continuously seeking new perspectives and innovative solutions to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.
Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right.
Apply today and join one of the most ethical companies with over a hundred years of history.
Join Ecolab and help us protect what’s vital.
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Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.
Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin,citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.
