Senior Sales Manager

Siemens Energy; Bergen; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Bergen, Norway seeks a Sales Manager for grid technologies solutions, driving the energy transition with customers in transmission and distribution and industrial sectors.

You will build and maintain relationships, lead tenders, and plan sales activities across Norway, with international travel 10–20 days per year. The role requires an electrical engineering background and strong collaboration across functions.

Qualifications

• Education as electrical engineer with 10-15 years’ experience.
• Energetic, persistent and able to collaborate across functions.
• Results-oriented, self-driven and has strong communication skills.
• Experience with digitization and have tried new methods that bring value to the sales process.
• You are used to an international environment and to communicating in Norwegian and English, both in writing and speaking.

Responsibilities

• Uncover customer needs and potential in your business area, as well as development of the customer portfolio.
• Plan and implement sales activities, including presentations, demonstrations, reference visits and customer days.
• Lead tendering, response to tenders and contract negotiations.
• Build networks in the industry and participate in relevant conferences and fairs, both locally and internationally.
• Contribute with active input to the sales department's overall strategy and business plans.

Skills

Sales experience

Customer relations

Cross-functional collaboration

Negotiation

Education

Electrical engineer

Job description

Sales manager grid technologies solutions with great drive to the energy transition in Norway!

Are you a team player who is passionate about sales, good customer relations?

Then you are the one we are looking for. Vi have an important position open at Siemens Energy. Here, your primary task will be to maintain and expand our market position within deliveries of solutions for the transmission and distribution grid as well as industrial customers that are connected to our high-voltage grid.

Snapshot of your day

You will have focus on our world leading and environmentally friendly solutions consisting of high-voltage switchgear products (AIS, GIS), transformers, net-stabilization solutions such as FACTS, designed to meet the expectation of our customers. You will be an active part of a dynamic organization where you will work with a portfolio of solutions, products and services with great potential, both technically and sales-wise.

How You’ll Make a Difference

As sales manager, you will be an important focal point for our customers' conversion to a sustainable and green energy system. We are working to remove all F-gases from the transmission and distribution network, and in addition to focusing on the green transition, digitization of our portfolio is also important.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining personal customer relationships to relevant parties within the electricity transmission and distribution industry and as well within new industries such as power-to-x, datacenters etc. Therefore, you take responsibility for:

• Uncover customer needs and potential in your business area, as well as development of the customer portfolio
• Plan and implement sales activities, including presentations, demonstrations, reference visits and customer days
• Lead tendering, response to tenders and contract negotiations
• Build networks in the industry and participate in relevant conferences and fairs, both locally and internationally.
• Contribute with active input to the sales department's overall strategy and business plans

You get technical and commercial support internally at Siemens Energy, where we are organized both on a Nordic and global level. You will become one of Siemens Energy's team in Norway, which is experiencing strong growth.

As part of the job, you will have the opportunity to travel within Norway, as well visit our factories in Europe, Asia and Americas; assuming 10-20 foreign travel days per year.

Office base will be Bergen, Norway

What You Bring

You have several years of sales experience, are motivated by getting to know the customer's needs and are used to providing professional sparring to customers. In addition:

• Education as electrical engineer with 10-15 years’ experience.
• Energetic, persistent and able to collaborate across functions.
• Results-oriented, self-driven and has strong communication skills.
• You have experience with digitization and have tried new methods that bring value to the sales process.
• You are used to an international environment and to communicating in Norwegian and English, both in writing and speaking.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With +100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Location: Bergen, Norway

We do background check as a part of the recruitment process.