This position supports the Southern European Regional Sales Managers (RSMs) and team within the EA sales organisation and serves as a key coordination and support role between the sales organisation and the functional back-office organisation. The role will liaise and collaborate with key points of contact within both organisations, including product marketing, sales operations, and HR.

The position will actively contribute to developing and executing processes to improve sales operations within the Southern European team. The role will provide extended support to the Southern European RSMs and the Southern European team resources actively working to secure new orders.

Close cooperation with Southern European RSMs is to be expected, as are operational resources within our factories to align forecasts and related activities.

This position will:

• Support pre-sales activities regarding customer pre-qualifications and support to ongoing bidding activities
• Participate and execute smaller proposals in cooperation with the RSM
• Work closely with support functions in our two organisations to enable and ease sales
• Actively use the company CRM (Salesforce)

Job Responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales support to Southern European RSMs, team and customers
• Support Southern European RSMs to issue quotations and clarifications to customers
• Documentation supply to customers (standard doc and issuance of order-specific documentation/declarations)

Required:

• Proven organisational skills with demonstrated ability to perform and prioritise multiple tasks.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with customers worldwide
• Forward thinker who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions
• Self-motivated with the ability to follow up on issues and progress to meet leadership expectations
• Experience working on multiple activities while following up on issues and progress reports to drive activities to completion
• Experience working cooperatively and respectfully on multicultural/cross-functional teams
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• English speaking
• Ability to travel, including on short notice

Preferred

• Additional languages
• Experience with Salesforce, JDE and other tools as used by the BU’s
• Experience with Det-Tronics products and system integration practices or related industry