Area sales Manager for Small Scale Spray Dryers

GEA Germany GmbH; Gladsaxe Kommune; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

GEA Germany GmbH is seeking an International Area Sales Manager to drive sales of Small Scale Spray Dryers and work closely with our global teams in sales, engineering, and application development.

You will lead the full sales journey from initial dialogue to signed contract, with international travel and collaboration across markets. A chemical or mechanical engineering background and proven project sales experience are required.

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in chemical or mechanical engineering with solid work experience.
• Familiar with production processes in Food, Pharma, or Chemical industries and able to translate into plant design.
• Successful track record in technical project sales with cross‑cultural understanding.
• Business sense to handle negotiations independently and engage virtual teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage sales pipelines and participate in customer visits.
• Help customers translate requirements into drying solutions.
• Calculate prices, write quotations, and follow up.
• Present solutions and advantages to customers.
• Conduct commercial and technical contract negotiations.
• Participate in tests of potential solutions at the test facility.
• Conduct market research and represent GEA at international exhibitions and conferences.

Skills

Proactive

Outgo­ing

Cross-cultural comms

Sales mindset

English - advanced

Education

Chemical or Mechanical Eng. degree

Tools

SAP

CRM systems

MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint/Word)

Job description

Are you ready to develop business opportunities in international markets, while supporting more sustainable industrial processes? And would you like to translate technologies into customer value with real-world impact? Then join GEA and take ownership of your own markets while collaborating closely with experienced specialists in sales, engineering and application development worldwide.

GEA Group – Engineering for a better world

You’ll be based at GEA’s Global Technology Centre in Søborg. The team consists of eight experienced colleagues who manage the full sales journey, from the very first customer dialogue to the signed contract. GEA is a world-leading process engineering group offering equipment and project solutions. The portfolio includes technologies relevant for the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industry as well as for the Food and Dairy industry. For the Business Line Chemical & Pharma, we are seeking a new international Area Sales Manager to join our team handling Small Scale Spray Dryers.

Responsibilities / Tasks

You will pursue sales leads in close collaboration with our global market companies helping customers finding the right drying solution. This involves process and plant specification, product test work, cost and sales price setting, preparation of quotations as well as final contract negotiations with customers.

You will be part of a global sales support team also covering Chemical drying as well as Pharmaceutical Spray Drying. You will be supported by an experienced team of internal experts in technology centers, application development and project execution.

• Manage sales pipelines and actively participate in customer visits.
• Support customers transforming their requirements into drying solutions.
• Calculate prices, write quotations, and follow up.
• Present the solution(s) and advantages.
• Conduct commercial and technical contract negotiations.
• Participate in tests of potential solutions for your customers at our test facility.
• Conduct market research and represent GEA in international exhibitions and conferences.

GEA offers a well-functioning and contemporary working environment where you will work closely with customers and internal experts. GEA offers great opportunities for personal and professional competence development.

The position requires physical presence in Soeborg, Copenhagen and international travel amounts to 20-40 days per year.

Your Profile / Qualifications

As a person, you are proactive and outgoing, able to juggle several projects at once while still keeping a clear overview. You thrive in an international environment and are motivated by the hunt for closing orders in collaboration with colleagues and customers worldwide always having our customers in focus. We call it customer centricity.

• Hold a degree in chemical or mechanical engineering, and you have solid work experience within the field.
• Are familiar with production process and equipment applied in the Food, Pharmaceutical or Chemical industry and can translate this into attractive plant design and quotation
• Have a successful track record within technical project sales and possess the necessary cross-cultural understanding and language skills to plan and carry out complex sales process internationally.
• You are also expected to have the necessary business understanding to handle negotiations independently.
• You have a collaborative mindset and understand how to engage virtual international teams drawing relevant expertise into your projects across GEA and the customers’ organization.
• You are mastering English at high level in writing as well as verbal and you are mastering IT programs in the MS Office portfolio (especially Excel, Power Point & Word) and are used to work with administrative tools (SAP, CRM systems etc.)

GEA is one of the largest suppliers of process technology for the food industry and a wide range of other industries. The international technology group focuses on process technology and components for sophisticated production processes in various end-user markets.