Area Sales Manager Germany

IMI Process Automation

9d • Remote

About The Position

We are a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We are curious and like to solve problems, partnering with our customers to solve the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. We embrace innovation and care about outcomes that are good for business, everyday life and making a better world – creating lasting impact for everyone. We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications. We focus on five market sectors: Industrial Automation, Process Automation, Climate Control, Life Science and Fluid Control, and Transport. Role Overview The Area Sales Manager leads the Sales activities for Oil, Gas & Petrochem sectors in a defined territory you will be responsible for managing agents and distributors in that territory. Among other tasks, you will focus on dormant plant activation, drive the replacement of competitors with respective IMI products and support GH initiatives in the market. This role can be based anywhere in Germany

Requirements

• Technical educational background (e.g. University Degree in Engineering) or commercial educational background (e.g. University Degree in Economics or Business Development, MBA/ BA).
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in a comparable Technical and Sales environment, preferably in the Valve Applications Industry
• Fluent in English and German; any other language as an advantage
• Structured, self-driven and organized approach
• 100% reliability towards customer, IMI Sales organization, agents, distributors and internal business units.
• By using listening skills focus on identifying meaningful customer problems and solving them
• Willingness to travel (min. 80%)

Nice To Haves

• First professional Experience in an industrial Sales environment with high-end products, best in ETO (Engineered to Order)

Responsibilities

• Support of activities to grow the IMI business within and, whenever needed, out of his/her own range of responsibility
• Driving of portfolio selling of IMI products
• Responsibility for achieving set budget targets and Sales KPI’s as annually defined
• Driving intimacy with customers in our market and identifies important customer problems that can be solved with IMI products
• Active support of Sales in his/her Sub-Region by visiting customers and agents at minimum 3-4 days a week
• Managing of sub-regional agent-strategy in order to drive additional Sales
• Focusing on dormant plant activation and replacement of competitor products in the sub-region
• Lead contract negotiations, ensuring alignment with company policies and profitability goals
• Ensuring that all IMI processes and procedures are followed

Benefits

• Good working atmosphere with excellent team spirit
• Exciting and challenging work with a high degree of independence in a diverse and inclusive team
• Interesting development opportunities within the group
• Extensive personnel development opportunities
• Opportunity to receive various employee benefits
• Market-competitive gross annual salary including bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior