In this position you will be involved in the entire customer journey; from lead generation, sales qualification , technical sales & applications , strategic decisions, negotiations, to project kick-off and customer service. You will be involved in strategic activities with our network of global customers; flexibility to undertake various different business activities is a must. You will join a growing sales team with diverse international backgrounds and nationalities
We want to further consolidate our market penetration and expand the capacity of our Sales Team. We are seeking for a Sales Engineer who will fit in our team, who can support the team, and who can manage to complete sales projects successfully.
Key activities are:
- Handling and processing requests for both new and existing customers;
- Managing and implementing the existing sales processes;
- Assessing and qualify the technical requests from the customers together with application team
- Maintaining & updating contacts in our CRM software;
- Participate to Trade fair, customer visits, active involvement in events and customer visits (at CEAD premises, in the Netherlands – and internationally;
- Collaborating with the Sales team regarding budgets and strategic goals;
- Monitoring the assigned market area/ customers in terms of current/potential customers, risks and economic trends regarding effective promotional activities for business development and consolidation.
- Formulating proposals while taking into account the customer needs by managing both financial aspects and the business negotiation process.
Your Experience
We are looking for a person with a technical background and business attitude who is able to get a lot of energy from understanding and grasping customer needs. Our sales process also focusses on technical and application aspects, due to the product and market, so affinity and experience with that is important. We hope to attract someone with at least one year of sales experience, or in roles with customer interactions. A background in engineering is preferred.
A knowledge / passion for 3D printing is considered a plus. What is considered a must is the attitude of being a Team member, curious to learn new technologies, transparent approach with customers and be proactive in finding new ways and path of generating profitable business opportunities.
Your skills:
- Good knowledge of English language, both verbally and in writing. Additional language is considered a plus.
- Customer oriented mindset
- Communicative, Good presentation skills
- Proactive, autonomous and team worker
- Ability to work in challenging situations
- Technical affinity and interest in our products
- Social, proactive and flexible attitude
- Good computer skills, and able and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator and CAD.
What do we offer?
- Appropriate salary, and good other secondary conditions (CAO M&T)
- A job within a young, very successful and strongly growing company where people work with a lot of passion and enthusiasm.
- A job within an innovative and dynamic organization
- Possibility to learn, grow and experiment yourself in a cool and demanding market
- Work within an international team
- Internationals business trips are required
Are you excited?
If you recognize yourself in this profile and are interested, please send your CV and motivation to Suda Klingenberg at HR@ceadgroup.com stating the job title. For questions or requests for additional information, please also contact Suda Klingenberg or Andrea Baldolini (andrea.baldolini@ceadgroup.com)
An assessment can be part of this procedure.
Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.
Our company is sailing in uncharted waters. CEAD aims at pushing the boundaries of the 3D printing market. The different departments of our team thus aim at innovation above all.
