Sales Account Manager at Viscon Group BV
A commercial Sales Account Manager with a background in Engineering? Are you stoked about sanitizing, and avid about automation? We’re looking to help our clients improve and automate their processes. Join Viscon as Sales Account Manager for Cleaning and Logistics Automation.
What are you going to do?
As a Sales Account Manager at Viscon you combine technology and commerce in an exciting (new) position. As part of the commercial team for the new US Company and in particular the Industrial Cleaning and Factory Logistics Automation Market, you will help business owners and builders to create Automated Factories. In many industries: Poultry, Fruit/Vegetables, Meat, Bakery, Dairy and many more, there are increasing needs to improve and automate the processes for industrial cleaning, pallet handling, storage, moving, and tracking and tracing. For handling, scale, and Health & Safety reasons, automation is needed. This market is growing rapidly (Warehouse Automation CAGR 14%) and has many new projects and retrofits. Demands are increasing as is the demand to do this in a way that improves hygiene, health and safety, and reduces costs.
In this exciting market, you will work together with the Viscon Team: Managing Director of the US, commercial manager, and another sales engineers. Working with our design and manufacturing teams in the Netherlands and Poland from all over the world you immerse yourself in the wishes of the customer, develop a solution and help draw up the quotation. This means that you are not your average salesperson, but use your technical background and creativity to link our techniques to the wishes of the customer. We #ThriveTogether
In addition to technical issues, you and your colleagues are in contact with customers and various other companies from all over the world to share knowledge and to stay up to date with the latest developments. This makes the work very varied. To bring projects to a successful conclusion, you also keep in touch with the project office and ensure that they have the right information to carry out their work optimally.
- An Associates Degree / Bachelor Degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics or other technical degree;
- 3-5 years of relevant experience; preference for Logistics Automation / Industrial Cleaning
- You have affinity with technology & sales; ideally CapEx projects
- You are accurate and can work on different projects at the same time
- A self-started, but Team Player, keeping in regular contact with colleagues and customers in different Countries / Time Zones.
- You have the Viscon character. What does this mean? That you are proactive, eager to learn and result-oriented.
- An innovative working environment where you are invited to think creatively and will be listened to! You can contribute to creating a more sustainable world, improving Animal Welfare standards.
- The opportunity to help build a business in the US using existing support networks within the Company.
- 20 days paid time off per annum.
- A competitive salary, rewards for achievement and a good benefits package.
- Training and development support.
Why do you want to do this job at Viscon?
Viscon is characterized by informal and short lines of communication. It is a warm, open and social company where innovation is central. It is a close-knit organization that is growing rapidly in which you get the freedom to grow and develop further.
We are an organization that always balances between the dynamics of innovation and the structure of standardization. Our customers in the Agro & Food sectors want the latest technology and this means that it is never boring with us! We now have 55 years of experience in this, so we know quite well what we are doing and how we can maintain that balance. Every day 300 colleagues work with us on the most innovative, qualitative and creative solutions to move products from A to B within production organizations. From seed to tomato, from young plant to bedding plants, from egg to chick.
You will work in the commercial team of Viscon Factory Automation. This team focuses on developing internal logistics systems. You should think of a combination of automatic handling, warehousing, factory information, handling systems, washing lines and automatic multi-layer storage systems.