Senior Food Sales Engineer — Growth & Strategic Solutions

Bakker & Partners; Kontich; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Fringe benefits

Personal development

Growth opportunities

Résumé du poste

Bakker & Partners collaborates with a renowned international technology supplier to recruit a Senior Sales Engineer Food Belgium. The role focuses on strengthening market position, regaining market share, and building sustainable customer relationships across Belgium.

You will develop consultative selling approaches for food processing equipment, lead negotiations on complex capital projects, and coordinate with engineering and service teams to deliver tailored solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Food Technology, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 5–8 years' experience in front-line B2B sales of industrial equipment or solutions within the food processing industry.
• Strong knowledge of food processing technologies, preferably within meat, fish, dairy, cheese, vegetable, or potato processing.
• Proven track record of achieving or exceeding sales targets in high-value machinery and Capex projects.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building abilities with experience engaging multiple stakeholders in complex customer organizations.
• Consultative, solution-oriented sales approach, acting as a trusted partner rather than a transactional salesperson.
• Self-driven, disciplined, and comfortable working independently with frequent travel across Belgium.
• Commercially minded with a proactive and results-oriented attitude.
• Fluent in Dutch and French, with a good command of English
• Pragmatic, hands-on professional with a no-nonsense mentality and a strong drive to succeed.

Responsabilités

• Build Relationships: Develop and maintain deep, trusted partnerships with existing customers and actively developing new business to increase market share at various levels, from operator to general management.
• Provide Consultative Selling: Analyze client production needs to recommend tailored, high-efficiency application food solutions, such as ovens, frying units and systems for coating, grinding and horizontal packaging (thermoforming).
• Negotiate contracts: Lead Commercial and technical negotiations for complex, long-term capital equipment contracts.
• Analyze markets: Monitor food industry trends, competitor activities and emerging regional market opportunities.
• Collaborate internally: work with engineering, product managers and service teams to design technical project proposals. Working closely with them for the best trusted partnerships with existing and new customers for the best advice and service.
• Represent the brand: Showcase products and network at major international food technology trade shows and follow up the leads afterwards.

Connaissances

B2B sales

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Communication

Relationship building

Travel willingness

Dutch & French fluency

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Food Technology, Business, or related field

Description du poste

Bakker & Partners collaborates with a renowned international technology supplier to recruit a Senior Sales Engineer Food Belgium. The role focuses on strengthening market position, regaining market share, and building sustainable customer relationships across Belgium.

You will develop consultative selling approaches for food processing equipment, lead negotiations on complex capital projects, and coordinate with engineering and service teams to deliver tailored solutions.