Inside Sales Officer

DNV; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 annual leave days

Career growth opportunities

Sales incentive scheme

Job summary

DNV in Rotterdam seeks a dynamic individual for a sales position emphasizing customer interaction and relationship building. Candidates are expected to demonstrate sales success, resilience, and a proactive attitude.

This role offers flexible working arrangements, excellent career growth opportunities, and numerous employee benefits, including 30 annual leave days. Successful candidates will be fluent in Dutch and English, with a desire to make a meaningful impact on clients' businesses.

Qualifications

• Background in sales positions with proven successful track record.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong desire to learn and improve skills.

Responsibilities

• Interact and build relationships with customers through various channels.
• Respond quickly to customer inquiries and provide effective solutions.
• Contribute to DNV’s commercial success through personal dedication and ownership.

Skills

Sales experience

Ability to exceed KPIs

Organizational skills

Social intelligence

Resilience

Fluency in Dutch and English

Job description

About Us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

About Business Assurance

We help companies ensure compliance, build high‑performing management systems, and meet competence needs across a wide range of industries. By working with us, you will be involved in technically challenging and innovative projects worldwide demanding a broad variety of expertise. Our strong focus on research and innovation opens an array of opportunities, allowing you to engage in projects that develop next‑generation solutions and manage their risk picture through management system certification and training portfolios.

About The Role

This is a dynamic and diverse role with a wide range of activities:

• Interact with customers. Spend a large part of your day talking to customers by phone, MS Teams, or email.
• Build relationships. Build strong relationships with customers and colleagues to be truly successful.
• Respond quickly. Most inquiries come in through our website, colleagues, and existing customers. You need to respond quickly to help our customers.
• Find solutions that work. Get to know your customers by thoroughly questioning them and conducting a good problem analysis. This in‑depth knowledge will enable you to build a solution from our portfolio that has a real impact on their business.

What we offer

This is a dynamic and challenging role that requires dedication, ownership, and a proactive mindset. In return, you will be part of a professional and collaborative working environment, with opportunities for personal development and career growth. This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop and make a meaningful contribution to DNV’s commercial success.

• Opportunity to make a difference: you will support organizations in achieving their goals and improve their Information Security, in the Benelux.
• Work in an organization that delivers on its values:
  • We Care: Our team really cares about our customers, and we put them at the center of what we do.
  • We Dare: We believe that transparency and quality benefit our customers.
  • We Share: You will share knowledge and advise our customers with insights and trends.
• Flexible working: Our office is in Barendrecht, but we have adjusted to the new normal. You’ll be expected to combine home and office working opportunities. We offer a full‑time job (38‑hour working week). Part‑time is negotiable.
• Career growth: We love to promote from within DNV supporting a long career. In combination with our annual growth, this is an opportunity to grow with us.
• Excellent benefits: We take good care of our employees with 30 annual leave days (excluding national holidays) and excellent secondary benefits, including a great sales incentive scheme with a reward on the sold value.

About You

We are open to hiring candidates from different backgrounds, experiences, and skills. Here’s what we’re looking for in a preferred candidate:

• Sales experience: You will receive excellent induction training of our tools over several weeks. You will build on your previous background in sales positions.
• Proven winner: You live with sales targets and KPIs as part of your daily business. We are looking for people who are target‑driven and can demonstrate exceeding them.
• Desire to drive: Do you want to learn about sales and how to be incredibly successful while making a real difference for your customers? You must have a desire to improve and the ability to learn new skills.
• Organized: This is a fast‑paced role with a mix of proactive and reactive activities. The right candidate will be able to juggle multiple priorities and work accurately and well under pressure.
• Energetic: We are looking for lively, hungry, ambitious, energetic team players.
• Smart and socially intelligent: You must have the ability to learn a portfolio of complex products and be able to describe them to customers. You must also possess a high degree of social intelligence.
• Resilient: You must be able to self‑motivate and push through adversities in this role.
• Language skills: A good command of Dutch and English is necessary in writing and speech.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country‑specific laws and practices.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.