Chief Sales Officer CSO (m/f/d)

About us

With our innovative market-inspired products, we have set the standard in our industry and revolutionized the mobile power supply market. Today, we are one of the world's leading providers of high-quality battery technology and power management. We develop, manufacture and supply our premium products to the world's most important manufacturers in the medical, test & measurement, military and robotics sectors and have been growing very dynamically for 30 years.

Your profile

• Degree in industrial engineering or business administration
• Proven experience in international sales and in leading international sales teams
• Ability for strategic orientation and its implementation paired with fast, goal-oriented ability to act at close range
• Ability to think in terms of customer needs and at the same time implement them in line with the corporate strategy
• Cosmopolitan personality with an interest in serving cultural dimensions
• High affinity for sales-supporting tools such as CRM and the drive to use them profitably
• Convincing and winning leadership personality, networker and team player
• High willingness to travel internationally for business
• Very good command of English

Why us?

• A healthy, fast-growing company with high investment power and modern processes/technologies
• A challenging and exciting task in a dynamic, international environment
• Plenty of creative freedom and the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the global success of our company
• A competitive remuneration package and attractive additional benefits
• Continuous professional development and training opportunities

If you are interested in working in an international environment and would like to be part of our company's success story with your enthusiasm, we look forward to receiving your application.

Your mission

As CSO, you will play a key role in our company's ambitious growth strategy and report directly to the CEO.

• Further development, implementation and safeguarding of the global, ambitious growth strategy in close cooperation with the CEO, Marketing and Product Management
• Market penetration in existing markets, identification of new markets and application of the successful business model in these markets
• Responsibility for the global sales organization and group-wide targets
• Preparation of sales budgets with full P&L responsibility, implementation of measures to achieve financial targets, promotion of profitability and sustainable growth
• Expansion and further development of a success-oriented sales team
• Further development of the distribution landscape and establishment of a partner system for multipliers (design houses & ODM)
• Personal cultivation and expansion of relationships with key accounts
• Establishment of sales controlling incl. forecasting up to 5 years, KPIs
• Further development and harmonization of sales processes
• Expansion of Salesforce
• Constant monitoring of the competition to ensure sustainable success