Sales Manager

We are looking for a Sales Manager with commercial acumen and a background in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial engineering to lead sales and business development activities in France. The ideal candidate will have at least 5-10 years of technical and solution sales experience and strong business development attitude.

Requirements

• Honours degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial engineering
• 5-10 years of technical and solution sales experience
• Strong business development attitude, with experience “in the field” to develop and care for existing and new customer accounts
• Able to identify and focus on contract winning strategies
• Experience with industry standard contractual conditions
• Good communications/marketing skills (front line interface with customers and third parties, comfortable to speak publicly e.g. presentations at seminars, exhibitions, conferences etc.)
• Language skills: English and French speaking; in addition, Italian and other European language are differential advantages
• Problem solving and target oriented mentality
• Interest to quickly learn and take responsibility
• Ability to interact with full organization hierarchy of clients & contractors
• Comfortable with all levels up to and including senior management (to CEO level) and able to communicate clearly and concisely
• Experience/attitude in dealing with complex and high value bids and involve internal and external stakeholders from different functions within the Group
• Comfortable to discuss at least first level engineering issues with Clients
• Pragmatism. Capability to set and to handle pragmatically the priorities
• Team-oriented, able to share competences, network, ideas and information with the rest of the team.