Area Sales Manager

Hach; Mellingen; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Challenging role in growing market

Structured development platform

VES system experience

Job summary

Hach, a Veralto company, seeks an Area Sales Manager to promote water analysis solutions in the Swiss German markets. You will visit customer sites for product demonstrations, negotiate deals, and drive retention while developing new accounts across northern and central Switzerland.

A chemistry background helps; expect 1–4 European trips yearly; fluency in Swiss German and English required, French a plus. As part of Veralto’s Water Quality segment, you’ll report via Salesforce and collaborate

Qualifications

• Degree in science or engineering or equivalent experience.
• Direct experience in sale or use of analysis instrumentation.
• Residence in the Zurich-Basel region of Switzerland with willingness to travel.
• Good knowledge of Office and English; Swiss German fluency; French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Product visits and demonstrations at customer sites.
• Business negotiation with customers.
• Actions for retention of acquired customers and development of new ones.
• Meet annual sales targets with timely reporting via CRM.
• Support customers technically to secure more orders.

Skills

Sales experience

Chemistry background

German speaking

English

Education

Degree in science or engineering

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Office

Job description

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impacton the world around you.
• Growing your expertiseand expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambitionand fueling your career growth.

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer

• An interesting, challenging, and economically attractive position in an ever-growing market at one of the most successful multinational companies.
• Structured platform for personal and professional development.
• Continuous improvement through the Veralto Enterprise System (VES).
• Responsibility and cooperation for the development of products and turnover at local, national and global levels.

The Area Sales Manager will be responsible for promoting and developing the sale of our water analysis solutions in the main markets of the Swiss German regions of Switzerland. He/she will have to technically support customers in order to acquire a greater number of orders and carry out adequate territorial analyses relating to the market trend.

The ideal candidate has gained experience: in the fields of water treatment or in the marketing of scientific instrumentation, a background in chemistry will be a plus, prospecting, business development and good negotiation.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Product visits and demonstrations at customer sites
• Business Negotiation
• Actions for the retention of acquired customers and for the research and development of new ones
• Measures and countermeasures for the achievement of annual sales targets
• Timely and accurate reporting through SalesForce corporate CRM

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Degree in science, engineering or equivalent experience
• Direct experience gained in the sale or use of analysis instrumentation. If it is in the water treatment sector it will be a plus
• Residence in the Zurich-Basel region of Switzerland and willingness to travel throughout the all the north and central Swiss German speaking regions. A few trips (1-4) per year could be in Europe for trainings and meetings.
• Good knowledge of the Office package
• Good knowledge of both spoken and written Swiss German and English, with French as a plus.

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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