Technical Sales Manager

Lan Handling; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual profit-sharing

Flexible working hours

Travel opportunities

Professional development

Job summary

Lan Handling seeks a Technical Sales Manager to drive international B2B sales in the machine-building and food industries. You will visit customers worldwide, coordinate with Sales Engineering and Project Management, and push for profitable solutions that balance ROI and innovation.

The role requires a technical or business background and 5–10 years of international sales experience. Dutch and English fluency plus another foreign language are expected, with travel flexibility a norm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a technical or business background is required.
• 5-10 years of experience in an international sales role (machine-building or food industry).
• Proven track record in gaining new business in a B2B environment.
• Entrepreneurial, goal-oriented and a true networker.

Responsibilities

• Lead international B2B sales activities for machine-building or food sectors.
• Travel for customer visits and handover meetings with project teams.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Project Management and Engineering.
• Identify opportunities and translate customer feedback into Lan's commercial strategy and roadmap.

Skills

International sales experience

Networking

Excellent communication

Dutch language proficiency

English language proficiency

Other foreign language

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree (technical or business)

Tools

Siemens TIA Portal

Rockwell Studio 5000

Rockwell Factory Talk Optix

KUKA Workvisual

Job description

Your week as a Technical Sales Manager?

You're getting an early start today as you hop in the car to head to Schiphol: an exciting travel week with lots of customer visits lies ahead.

One of the highlights is a meeting to discuss the future of automated pouch handling with one of the world's leading pet food producers. Together with your Sales Engineering colleague, you've developed a solution that perfectly balances innovation, performance and return on investment.

A few hours later, your phone rings: a customer in Australia has selected Lan as their preferred partner. Months of relationship building, technical discussions and solution development have paid off! Next week, you'll bring the project team together for a handover meeting with colleagues from Project Management and Engineering, ensuring a smooth transition from sales to execution.

Later that week, you're standing next to a newly commissioned production line for ready meal salads, watching thousands of products move flawlessly through an End-of-Line system that started as an idea on your laptop. You exchange ideas with the customer, identify new opportunities and further strengthen the partnership for the future.

Before heading home, you take time to capture the insights gathered throughout the week. Customer feedback, competitor activity, market trends and emerging opportunities are translated into actions that help shape Lan's commercial strategy and future product roadmap. Wow, another dynamic week filled with technology, customer interaction and international business has flown by!

How you get things moving:

• You have a Bachelor's degree with a technical or business background
• 5-10 years of experience in an international sales role (machinebuilding or food industry)
• A proven trackrecord in gaining new business in a B2B environment
• You are an entrepreneurial, goal-oriented and a true networker!
• Good communication skills both verbal and written (Dutch, English and another foreign language)

We offer

A completely new supermarket experience. Huh, what?! Really.

Once you start working at Lan Handling, shopping will never be the same again. From that day on, you will turn over all the pouches, cans and jars you see.

You'll find yourself always checking: yes! we also handle this product with our machines! But that's not all of course:

• Earn a salary between €4500 and €5700, depending on your experience.
• We ask for flexibility because of the travel involved, and we gladly return the favor - whenever you're not needed at a customer site or our production location, you're free to work remote (though we enjoy seeing our colleagues from time to time!).
• A growth path with possibilities in R&D, service, or as a software project engineer.
• Work with modern software programs and tech stacks, including Siemens TIA Portal (V15+), Rockwell Studio 5000 (V28+), Rockwell Factory Talk Optix (V1.6+), and KUKA Workvisual (6.o).
• A working environment full of opportunities to keep developing yourself. Good idea? Any wishes regarding training? Discuss it with your supervisor and get started.
• Flexible working hours, so you can make time for sports, hobbies or just to take your children calmly to school in the morning.
• In addition to 25 vacation days, you also get 13 days of paid leave so you have enough time to do fun things next to your work.
• An annual profit-sharing benefit. Because our vision is that we do it together and everyone contributes to a positive result for the organization, meaning you also benefit from a financially successful year.
• Join us for a Trabant ride, a tandem ride to the Trappist monastery or shine during one of the other fun activities organized by our staff association.
• 8% holiday allowance.
• Good travel expenses.