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Sales Engineer - Native French - Baggage Handling Systems Job in Based in France (from home office) Or move to the Netherlands, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

Vanderlande – challenges in motion

Sales Engineer - Native French - Baggage Handling Systems Job Description

Your position

As a Sales Engineer, you will operate in a dynamic and highly professional organization. You get the opportunity to develop yourself and to see many customers around the world in an environment that enables you to be entrepreneurial and to take initiative.

You support the Sales Manager in pre-bid, bid and final closing phases. You will work on various projects in various sales phases simultaneously with the aim to offer what the customer values and to eliminate what is not explicitly valued. To do so you steer an internal sales support team (procurement, planning, concept design, controls, etc.) and establish the most competitive proposal.

You connect design choices with price consequences and you ensure that the selection of our solution based on the best combination of both factors. The Sales Engineer is responsible for organizing workshops with - and preparing and presenting technical/commercial content to the customer.

Your department
Vanderlande is the market leader in baggage handling system technology. The Sales Engineering department is amongst others responsible for the translation of customer requirements in competitive designs, generating quotes and other sales documents as requested in tender processes, calculating prices, analyzing risks and opportunities and supporting sales managers in front of the customer and/or consultant by giving technical presentations.

At the Sales Engineering department, it is all about understanding the requirements of the customer, doing what is needed to win the project and ensuring that what is offered is both competitive and feasible in terms of costs, solutions and planning.

Sales Engineer - Native French - Baggage Handling Systems Job Requirements

Your profile

  • BSc or higher (technical background is essential)
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in bid/proposal preparations, preferably in material handling.
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% of your time between The Netherlands and France.
  • Proven interest in sales, engineering, projects, logistic processes and airports.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, you think in opportunities and dare to investigate out of the box solutions.
  • Taking ownership for the opportunities you are assigned to, self-propelling.
  • A strong drive to win, customer focus, drive to build a relationship with the customer.
  • Able to be demanding to supporting departments to get what is needed to win.
  • Native French and excellent English speaking.


Our Offer 
In the challenging and responsible position of Sales Engineer, you will get the opportunity to contribute to the growth and profitability of Vanderlande Industries, an organization which has been elected as ‘Best Employer’ for several years in a row.

We offer a fulltime position in an informal working environment with a lot of opportunities for personal development. You will either be based in France (work from home office or at our French office, depending on your location) or you can move to The Netherlands (Eindhoven area).

Besides your primary salary you will receive the following secondary conditions:
  • Flexible working hours
  • Training
  • Commuting allowance
  • Phone
  • Laptop
  • Collective pension scheme and insurance facilities for healthcare, car, WGA (Return to Work Scheme for the Partially Disabled) etc.

Sales Engineer - Native French - Baggage Handling Systems Application Information

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Sales Engineer - Native French - Baggage Handling Systems Summary

Education Backgrounds: Business Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Specialties: Commissioning
Marketing
Project Engineering
Project Management
Sales / Communication
Education Level: Undergraduate (Bachelors)
Postgraduate (Masters)
Doctorate (PH.D)
Experience: 10 - 15 years
5 - 10 Years
> 15 years
Languages spoken: English
French
Job Location: Based in France (from home office) Or move to the Netherlands, Netherlands
Keywords: Sales, Engineer, Native, French, Baggage handling system, tender processes, calculating prices, analyzing risks, procurement, planning, concept design, controls, sales, solutions, projects, logistic processes, airports, logistics

Vanderlande

Veghel, Netherlands
Human Resources - Tjalling Kraak
0413-495288
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Type: Job

Deadline: 6th December 2016

Job reference (ID): 10978

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