Sales Manager - multiple locations

BYD EUROPE; Berlin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

World-leading vocational training

An attractive salary structure

Pleasant working environment

Flexible working hours

Job summary

BYD EUROPE seeks a Sales Manager and Deputy Director of Sales to drive growth with distribution partners across Europe. You will lead presales support, identify market potential, and convert demand into orders through collaboration with technical and commercial teams.

Fluency in English is required; additional languages such as German are a plus. The role emphasizes proactive outreach, strategic bidding, and strong relationship-building, with flexible hours and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in electrical/electrical & electronic engineering or related field.
• Experience in sales/marketing in energy or electronics sectors.
• English fluency; German or other languages a plus.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Proactive, results-oriented with MS Office proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Visit customers with distribution partners for presales support and to answer technical questions.
• Identify market potential, develop and maintain customers, explore project planning and demand.
• Provide customer analysis and market research; input product requests to support technical team.
• Understand market standards and bidding trends; promote design improvements and pre-tendering strategies.
• Collaborate with the commercial manager on contract negotiations, payments, and bid documents.

Skills

Sales & Marketing

New energy systems

Customer relations

Fluent English

Technical discussions

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Business with energy/engineering affinity

Tools

MS Office

CRM systems

Job description

【Sales Manager and Deputy Director of Sales positions are also available in USA, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and etc.】

BYD is a high-tech company devoted to technological innovations for a better life. BYD was founded in February 1995, and after more than 20 years of fast growth, the company has established over 30 industrial parks worldwide and has played a significant role in industries related to electronics, automobiles, new energy and rail transit. From energy generation and storage to its applications, BYD is dedicated to providing zero-emission energy solutions. BYD is listed on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, with revenue and market capitalization each exceeding RMB 100 billion. In 2023, BYD made the Fortune Global 500 list for 2024 ranking 143rd.

Rooted in new energy industry and equipped with fully self-developing, designing, and manufacturing capabilities, BYD has been engaged in the battery field for more than 20 years, with 100% independent battery R&D, design and production capabilities. BYD has built a complete battery industry chain covering xEV battery, energy storage and new application battery and consumer electronics battery and components, which helps to realize the global layout, continuously consolidating the core competitiveness.

In addition to its home market in China, BYD's products are well received around the world. BYD's subsidiaries and battery business are widely distributed in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Africa. In Germany, France, UK, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and USA, we are enthusiastically looking for like-minded talents, to work together towards a sustainable world and a green future for mankind.

JOIN US! Let's create a better life with technological innovation.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work together with distribution partners to visit customers for presales support and technical questions support.
• Identify the market potential, develop and maintain new and old customers, explore customer project planning and market demand, convert demand into orders from technical, commercial, and service point of view.
• Provide customer analysis report and market research, track customers' demands, collect and input customer's request about products to support technical team.
• Understand market product standards and demand trends, and promote product design improvement, formulation and implementation of bidding strategies for pre-tendering /in- tendering/post-tendering of bidding projects.
• Cooperate with the commercial manager in contract negotiation (negotiation of business terms/communication of technical documents), payment collection and bidding documents review, etc.

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in electrical engineering, electrical & electronical engineering, or a comparable higher education qualification. A Bachelor degree in Business with affinity to energies/engineering will also apply.
• Proven knowledge and expertise, and passion for sales and marketing background in: a) the new energy power system/ energy storage system or related industries; b) or consumer electronics, smart devices, small power products（like Power tool, E-Bike, E-Scooter, UPS, etc） that using Li-ion batteries; c) or xEV battery and etc.
• Previous working experience in sales and marketing is a plus.
• Fluent in English. Competence in other local languages (e.g. German, French and etc. ) may be essential or a plus.
• Computer knowledge and efficiency, including MS Office.
• Good technical discussions, commercial contract negotiation skills.Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Proactive approach and result-oriented.

We offer:

• World-leading vocational training
• An attractive salary structure
• Pleasant working environment
• Flexible working hours