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<\/p>\nMost of OJ\u2019s sales are international, and during most weeks, Peter will be traveling somewhere between customers abroad, OJ\u2019s headquarters in S\u00f8nderborg, and working from home in Germany. His American customers are sound asleep at the time that he gets up in the morning, so there is no such thing as 8-16 at the office. No two days are quite the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the flexibility. Doing the same day after day wouldn\u2019t make me happy. It\u2019s normal for me to wake up and not know what the day will bring. Instead, my days are shaped by my agenda and where my customers are. If they are in the US, I\u2019ll work from there. If I need to collaborate with colleagues in Denmark, I\u2019ll be there. The most important thing is to succeed with the tasks at hand. And to see that you make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continues on the way of working at OJ, \u201cOJ gives you a lot of freedom with responsibility. If you want to, they will let you. The management displays a great degree of trust in their employees and makes room for people to develop. They let you take on difficult challenges and tasks. It is part of the OJ DNA to invest in the employees. In learning, developing, and growing. And in turn, initiatives are very welcomed.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example of his employer\u2019s will to invest in people, Peter looks back at the way he moved from export sales to Key Account Manager. While in his first job, he was given the opportunity to study for an HD, and in connection with this he wrote a thesis on how to turn customers into Key Accounts and how to acquire and manage large customers. This gave him a solid theoretical foundation and at the same time he helped acquiring several large customers. It followed naturally that he moved on to become their account manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cFreedom under responsibility is present everywhere in my job,\u201d he explains. \u201cFor instance, I have a sales target for the year and a budget. It\u2019s as simple as that. It\u2019s then up to me how I want to spend the budget to reach my target. Nobody checks up on me all the time to see if it\u2019s going in the right direction or not. Of course, I have to report to management regularly, but nobody is breathing down my neck, and I don\u2019t have to spend time constantly defending my work. Basically, there is no micromanagement, just a high degree of trust!\u201d<\/p>\n
At OJ, many different departments must come together to achieve success, and everyone respects that no single department can achieve it on its own. \u201cWe have great respect for each other,\u201d says Peter. \u201cThe OJ machine is only well-oiled if we acknowledge each other and support each other in moving forward. There\u2019s a great appreciation for each other\u2019s skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
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People generally stay with OJ for a long time compared to other companies, and while OJ has doubled its turnover and grown in staff numbers during Peter\u2019s time here, it is still small enough that everyone knows everyone. \u201cIt becomes like a family because you have known each other for such a long time. On a personal level too,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s the OJ spirit and has been as long as I\u2019ve been there. You join in and help each other out. We genuinely care and worry about each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if he is unable to join many of the social activities with his colleagues because of his German location, he finds plenty of opportunities to spontaneously get together. \u201cIt\u2019s up to you. You can also just meet up for a beer after work. Take action, set something up. There\u2019ll always be colleagues who want to join in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter sums up the experience of working at OJ in three prominent pillars: freedom, trust, and a fantastic collegial community. \u201cThere\u2019s no better basis for growing and developing as a person and in your career,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have some very good values at OJ. No doubt about that. So much that I think of my work as my hobby. It is very rare that I don\u2019t feel like working. I feel lucky that someone will pay me for doing this, because it\u2019s so much fun. Even after 17 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Germany-based Peter H. Nielsen began his career in OJ\u2019s export sales. He later moved on to a position as North American Market Manager with responsibility for the region, and for the last six months, he has been holding the position as Sales Director. He describes his time at OJ as a journey filled with development …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n