Sales Engineer
About this position
At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.
Responsibilities
• Defines and executes global / regional / local account strategy, including annual revenue plan and target plan
• Identifies business opportunities, steers business development budgets for agreed accounts and defined objectives
• Translates customer’s strategy and priorities into a joint innovation roadmap
• Drives and rolls-out customer approvals and pushes upstream solution selling
• Develops and maintains sustainable and long-term relationships with key accounts, key executives and sponsors
• Implements new customer acquisition plans for chain and prestige accounts
• Defines account-specific pricing, negotiates contracts, ensures fulfilment of commitments and implementation of commercial policy
• Optimizes sales processes in country and leads junior KAMs
• Develops and maintains strong executive and cross-functional relationships at HQ and key locations
• Steers and supports internal resources to execute account strategy
• Analyzes financial KPIs and proactively steers key account business
• Is responsible for timely and accurate admin. tasks supporting account strategy including sales forecast updates, monthly reports, etc.
Requirements
• Min. 3 - 5 years of sales experience, with experience in the Automotive sectors
• Well versed in Microsoft office and other business digital platforms
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Ambitious and self-starter
• Willingness to challenge status quo