Area Sales Manager Southwest & California

Organization

JBT-Marel is an international supplier of integrated systems products and services for the Fish Meat and Poultry industry. Our tagline is fortify the Future of Food. Thats the heart of everything we do.

JBT-Marel Fish

JBT-Marel is the leading global supplier of advanced standalone equipment and integrated systems to the fish industry.

Area Sales Manager Fish - Southwest and California USA

The function

As an Account Manager Fish you will be an expert of our fish process. You will follow a training program to gather all this knowledge. The duration of the program may vary depending on your skills and experience. You work with and support the other Account Managers agents and back office in determining the real customer need. You know how to open the door at new customers but you know also what it means to be responsible for our existing customers in the market.

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for sales process from prospect including until take-over protocol; during the meetings at the customer you will indicate the size of the projects and what is needed to make a project successful. A team of Product Specialists and Sales Engineers is available to support you during all phases. A project can vary from a single machine to a full line integrated system.
• Negotiating the final deal and including handling all final details of the terms and conditions is part of your responsibilities with support of our legal department and your manager.
• Your knowledge and opinion is an important asset to make account and strategic plans. Together with your manager you will prepare the annual sales plan and you take care of the execution of this plan.
• You will participate at (inter)national exhibitions demos and events.
• You will sell also software solutions
• If needed youll assist some colleagues as a process consultant and/or industry sales manager.

Requirements:

• You have a bachelor degree within a technical area (preferably mechanical engineering / food processing technology).
• Previous working experience about 3-8 years in a technical 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 within the machinery of food sector but this is not a must.
• As a person you are pro-active emphatic energetic and sharp result driven independent and you have an entrepreneurial mind-set. You are down to earth and you have a pragmatic way of approaching your job and its tasks.
• The responsibilities include verbal and written communication with (foreign) offices on a daily basis.
• Last but not least you are willing to travel 50% of your time.

We offer

JBT Marel offers you plenty of space to develop yourself. The informal atmosphere gives you the opportunity to take responsibility and show initiative. You will of course be supported and supervised by the organization. Salary will depend on knowledge and experience. At JBT Marel the challenges are there for the taking!

COMPENSATION RANGE:$120000.00-$130000.00 plus commision.Compensation is determined on experience and skill.This job description is a general description of essential job functions. It is not intended as an employment contract nor is it intended to describe all responsibilities someone in this position may perform. All employees of JBT Marel are expected to perform tasks as assigned by supervisory personnel regardless of job title or routine job responsibilities.

Contact information

For more information on the position you can contact our Talent Acquisition Business Partner

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