Account Manager at Marel

Job description

Within Marel, we encourage the personal and professional development of our employees. Before you become a successful Account Manager, you will follow a training program. During this program you will gather knowledge about our market and our portfolio of products and services, about poultry processing technology and about our sales process and organization. The duration of the program may vary, depending on your skills, and experience.

After this training program, you will start working as an Account Manager. Your sales area is South Africa. As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining relations with (potential) customers and other stake-holders in order to become Marel’s customer expert in your Area;
• Ensure deep trust and involvement by developing intimate understanding of customer needs;
• Determining and executing operational sales plans for your area in line with the strategic plan;
• Realization of your commercial targets;
• Participating at (inter)national trade shows and Marel Customer Events;
• Selling directly and with support of the Regional Sales Manager.

Requirements

You have a bachelor degree within a technical area (preferably mechanical engineering). After your studies, you have been working 1-5 years in a capital goods sales environment and you have the ambition to develop yourself further as a sales professional within a 1st class market leading company. Ideally, you have experience in selling equipment for the food sector, but this is not a must.

As a person, you are emphatic, energetic and sharp, result driven, independent and you have an entrepreneurial mindset. You are down to earth and you have a pragmatic way of approaching your job and its tasks. Last but not least, you are willing to travel circa 50-70% of your time within your area.

We offer

Working at Marel means working at a multinational with many chances to develop yourself, take responsibility and show initiative. We offer an exciting job with a representative base salary, attractive secondary benefits in an international atmosphere that supports the company’s vision, and exhibit Marel’s core values Unity, Innovation and Excellence.