Sales Manager*in Germany

We are looking for a Sales Manager*in Germany at our location in Duisburg to start as soon as possible:

This is what we offer you:

• Tariff-bound remuneration including holiday and Christmas bonuses
• Unlimited employment contract with a secure employer
• 30 days of vacation + tariff-based special leave days
• Bike leasing
• Your own employee canteen
• A share purchase program
• Multifaceted support programs for employees (family insurance, health and wellness services, help with consumer issues, legal questions or psycho-social concerns through an external counseling service)
• Employee discounts (Corporate Benefits)
• Individual opportunities for further education and career advancement
• Pension plan
• Free parking spaces with electric charging stations and good public transportation connections

This is what you'll be doing:

• Customer Relationship Management: Responsibility for building, maintaining, and expanding existing and new customer relationships in Germany, regular customer visits, collecting market insights, and broad use according to customer needs.
• Business Development: Identification, development, and conclusion of sales opportunities in the areas of modernization, repair, and service contracts for Port Services, as well as active shaping of regional growth and winning new customers.
• Offering: Independent creation and technical underpinning of offers in close cooperation with the technical teams, including tracking of inquiries and offers until implementation.
• Counseling: Expert counseling on products, service contracts, spare parts, and optimization possibilities for facilities.
• Sales Control: Contribution to sales strategy and commercial goals, maintenance of all sales and offer data in CRM, creation of reports after customer visits, and cooperation with planning to monitor orders and participation in industry events, trade fairs, and conferences.

This is what you bring:

• Educational Background: Technical education with additional business knowledge.
• Personality: Result-oriented, self-motivated, and proactive work style, as well as excellent relationship management skills at the management level. Willingness to regular, nationwide business trips.
• Experience: Several years of experience in B2B sales, ideally in the machinery industry, with solid knowledge of service contracts, spare parts, repairs, modernizations, and retrofits.
• Expertise: Secure handling in communication with decision-makers and deep understanding of industrial or logistical customer requirements; Very good German and English skills.
• IT Competence: Solid understanding of common sales systems and secure handling of Office365.