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VACANCY FOR SALES MANAGER, High Seed Separators – CENTRAL INDIA
We are seeking a highly skilled Sales Manager Who will be responsible for identifying business opportunities within the market and concluding direct sales of Alfa Laval products and services within a defined area of responsibility (e.g. geographical, group of customers, industry or product group etc.)..
About the Company:
In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allow our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do.
Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers' processes. our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead. Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com.
The position / About the Job:
Alfa Laval India is looking for the Sales Manager , High Speed Separators– Central (Pune) for our Food and Water Division.
With the purpose of accelerating success for our customers, people and planet, Alfa Laval has developed products since 1883. Alfa Laval is today a world leader within the key technology areas of heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling.
Alfa Laval is a well-established and leading brand in the region India and has its country headquarter in Pune, with a network of service centers, sales offices, sales channels, agents and Authorized Service Providers across the region. India is also a group manufacturing site for High-Speed Separators, Decanters, Heat Exchangers and Fluid handling equipment and has a parts distribution Centre.
Food and Water Business in India has grown very well during the recent years and Sales Manager will Represent Alfa Laval Food & Water Division in the Central India Region for capital sales of High-speed separators and solutions and provide seamless customer experience during all phases of business as face of Alfa Laval.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Build, nurture and maintain strong relationship with customers.
- Continuously look for sales opportunities and generate leads.
- Proactive work to generate leads through product promotion, customer events, seminars, etc.
- Convert leads into active inquiries by working closely with the customers, promoting our product, application, solutions expertise.
- Actively convert quotations into purchase orders/contracts by close interaction with customers on performance, technical and commercial clarifications.
- Tackle and fight competition; negotiate and close the requirement/contracts. Seek techno-commercially clear purchase order from customer.
- During order execution, work as a communication link with customers, coordinate internally to achieve smooth execution and customer satisfaction.
- Be responsible for setting and achieving monthly/quarterly/yearly order intake, invoicing targets.
- Execute the business unit strategies in the region
- Follow sales processes and guidelines to promote and sell Alfa Laval products.
- Use CRM tools and other tools in a consistent and qualitative way to support the sales process and take decisions
Key competencies required as a Sales manager –
- Good decision maker.
- Customer relationship management and excellent negotiating skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Immense travelling ability.
- To be able to close contracts by innovatively providing options/solutions.
- Networking and influencing ability
Who you are -
As a Sales Manager- Food and Water Division, you will develop and grow the High Speed Separators business in Central India.
What you can be -
- Graduate Engineer with specialization in Chemical or mechanical branch, Degree/diploma in management (Marketing or sales) would be an added advantage.
- 6-8 years of overall functional experience in Sales, Sales support, Proposals for capital goods.
- Preferably from process engineering, manufacturing, equipment supply domain.
- Working experience with Food/Pharma/Sugar/Starch/Distillery/Food processing Customers in previous organization. Or direct experience working in above industries.
- Working experience in North region.
- Should be able to drive business in a matrix environment
The location?
- Pune
Why should you apply
- We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
- Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities to mingle and to learn.
- Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success, you will be learning new things every day.
Interested? Please apply for the position.
Note -
We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.
