Key Account Manager - Northern Germany

• Key Account Manager
• Global Market Leading Manufacturer
• Mechanical Components – Flow Control - Valves
• €80,000 - €90,000 Basic salary (negotiable, experience dependent)
• Home Office, Quality Company Car, Pension, Laptop, Mobile Phone, Credit Card
• Bonus up to 40% - €32,000 - €36,000 (salary dependent)
• Mercury Hampton is working exclusively with this client.
• North Germany territory

A world leading manufacturer of valves and mechanical components for applications throughout the most challenging industries in the world: energy, defence, marine, renewables, oil and gas, petrochemical, steel and life science. They are a long established manufacturer of standard and bespoke solutions.

This world leading company is looking to grow their German sales team with a Key Account Manager in Northern Germany. Between you and a colleague in the south, you will cover the whole country. You will be joining a winning sales team and will take over some prestigious clients. This precision engineering manufacturing company has an outstanding reputation across the world for innovation, reliability, and service. If you would like to be part of something special in Germany, please get in touch.

You will take responsibility for managing designated key accounts throughout your region. You will sell bespoke engineered and customised solutions to strategic OEM customers, growing the revenue of the accounts.

This is technical solution selling; you will need to have a mechanical engineering aptitude, but also be an articulate and dynamic salesperson. You will have a strong mechanical engineering aptitude or qualification through an engineering apprenticeship or Engineering Degree.

This is a home-based role that requires regular customer visits throughout the sales region. As Technical Sales Engineer, you will be expected to report all sales and quotation activity on a monthly basis. You will be supported by a team of internal sales engineers who will assist with any technical backup needed to assist in closing the sale and supporting the customer. We are looking to speak with candidates with strong account management skills and mechanical engineering experience – realistic earnings circa €120,000.

The Candidate:

• The successful candidate will have external sales experience from an associated sector i.e., mechanical engineering, valves, actuators, mechanical seals, rotating equipment, pumps etc.
• Mechanical engineering background
• A strong strategic thinker with exceptional ability to develop relationships, manage key accounts and develop new business
• You will have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate and sell to a wide variety of levels.
• A proven track record of business to business sales.
• Dynamic “can do” attitude, and enthusiasm for sales
• Extensive product training will be provided.
• Fluent German to native level and good English
• You will live in the northern half of Germany: Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Munster, Bielefeld, Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Wolfsburg, Leipzig, Dresden etc.

The best part of this is, if you are successful in getting the job, we guarantee that you are going to love it. Why? For every 100 people we recruit, 96% are still with their company 12 months later, and 94% are still there 2 years later. That speaks for itself.

Want to be a part of this? If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and passion this position requires then get in touch now before the deadline expires. To apply, click on the apply button below, contact Charlie Austin, or call the Mercury Hampton office directly on 0044 1925 937 311. We aim to respond to all successful applicants within two working days.

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