Technical Sales Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 vacation days

13 paid leave days

Annual profit-sharing

Trabant ride

Tandem ride

Travel expenses coverage

Training / development opportunities

Job summary

Lan Handling seeks an experienced Technical Sales Manager to lead international sales initiatives and expand our B2B portfolio. You will travel to engage with customers, develop solutions, and ensure smooth handovers to project teams.

The role requires a technical/business background, a proven track record in international sales, and excellent networker abilities in Dutch and English (plus another language). Travel is integral to the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a technical or business background.
• 5-10 years of experience in an international sales role (machinebuilding or food industry).
• Proven track record in gaining new business in a B2B environment.
• Entrepreneurial, goal-oriented and a true networker.
• Fluent in Dutch, English and another foreign language.

Responsibilities

• Drive international sales opportunities and maintain key customer relationships.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams for handover to project execution.
• Identify and pursue new business in B2B markets.

Skills

International sales experience

New business development

Networking

Effective communication

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.