Senior Sales Manager, Energy Sales and Service Operations, South Africa at Valmet

Job Description

Are you an experienced sales professional with passion to do some business development projects as well? Now we have great job opportunity available in South Africa as one of our long term employee will relocate back to Sweden after 20+ years in Durban.

We are now looking for a Senior Sales Manager to lead and develop our Energy Sales and Service Operations in South Africa as part of the SEMEA region team.

In this position you will generate profitable sales and market share for both energy capital and service businesses including power plant, recovery boiler, evaporation and environmental system solutions. You have an opportunity to manage and develop the local sales and service operations in Sub Saharan Africa. In addition, it’s important to support customer project execution as applicable and promote sales and marketing of local service solutions and agreement based services.

As a Senior Sales Manager you will be responsible for the sales budget and action plans and managing customer contacts, enquiries and leads, giving presentations, participating in or leading sales negotiations, preparing sales proposals and contracts in close cooperation with Capital and Service Operations located in Finland and Sweden. Also, as part of your duties is to implement the marketing actions and product launches as jointly planned with the relevant Business Unit and actively follow-up market and competitor intelligence in South Africa and focus countries in Sub Saharan Africa.

To ensure successful results, you will also take care of the reference management incl. customer feedback and satisfaction; you will develop a local partner and subcontractor network; you will follow-up account receivables, warranty and quality issues.

Requirements

• technical background, with a minimum Bachelor in Engineering degree or equivalent in mechanical/process/thermal engineering
• good knowledge of power generation processes
• minimum 5 years’ experience from power plant operation and/or engineering and proven relevant records.
• good leadership and communication skills
• fluent English written and spoken
• service minded approach
• willingness to travel over 100 days per year, including travelling locally in South Africa and abroad
• good installation and engineering experience as advantage.

We offer

We not only offer this excellent job opportunity to be part of our growing business area but also give you a great opportunity for your international business and career development in one of the emerging markets globally. You’ll have a professional international team to support you and collaborate with you.

You’ll be based in our Durban office (Mount Edgecombe) but the travelling for business is very much involved in this role.

Additional Information

If you would like to hear more about living and working in Durban, please contact the current position holder Bertil Lang, +27 31 502 9350.

If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for, leave your application soon via the link provided.