About the role
Your week as a Technical Sales Manager? You're getting an early start today as you hop in the car to head to Schiphol: an exciting travel week with lots of customer visits lies ahead. One of the highlights is a meeting to discuss the future of automated pouch handling with one of the world's leading pet food producers. Together with your Sales Engineering colleague, you've developed a solution that perfectly balances innovation, performance and return on investment.
Tasks
•Together with your Sales Engineering colleague, develop solutions that balance innovation, performance and return on investment
•Bring the project team together for a handover meeting with colleagues from Project Management and Engineering, ensuring a smooth transition from sales to execution
•Exchange ideas with the customer, identify new opportunities and further strengthen the partnership for the future
•Capture insights gathered throughout the week
•Translate customer feedback, competitor activity, market trends and emerging opportunities into actions that help shape Lan's commercial strategy and future product roadmap
Requirements
•Bachelor's degree with a technical or business background
•5-10 years of experience in an international sales role (machinebuilding or food industry)
•A proven track record in gaining new business in a B2B environment
•Entrepreneurial, goal-oriented, a true networker
•Good communication skills both verbal and written (Dutch, English and another foreign language)
Conditions
•Salary between €4500 and €5700, depending on experience
•Flexibility required because of travel involved; in return, free to work remote whenever not needed at a customer site or the production location
•A growth path with possibilities in R&D, service, or as a software project engineer
•Work with modern software programs and tech stacks, including Siemens TIA Portal (V15+), Rockwell Studio 5000 (V28+), Rockwell Factory Talk Optix (V1.6+), and KUKA Workvisual (6.o)
•A working environment full of opportunities for self-development; training wishes can be discussed with your supervisor
•Flexible working hours
•25 vacation days plus 13 days of paid leave
•An annual profit-sharing benefit
•Activities organized by the staff association (e.g. a Trabant ride, a tandem ride to the Trappist monastery)
•8% holiday allowance
•Good travel expenses
