Senior Sales Manager

Kongsberg is seeking to hire a high-performing Senior Sales Manager in the EMEA region. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Kongsberg Discovery`s sales team to help us meet our targets by keeping our company competitive and innovative. The right person will focus on product sales to OEM and end users, but also look for opportunities to cross-sell other products in our portfolio as part of meeting the customer demand. You will join an experienced team, and together be responsible for maximizing our sales potential.

Products & Solutions

Kongsberg Seatex, a company within Kongsberg Discovery, develop and produce world class products for positioning, navigation and communication comprising GNSS, Inertial, Radar and electrooptical sensors and technology. Your focus will be related to products & solutions, where you will work with further development of product-oriented businesses and operations based on a strong technology platform.

In this position your main responsibilities are:

• To create and maintain customer relations for product sales.
• Develop sales and customer strategies for our products and solutions
• Liaise with other company functions to ensure achievement of sales objectives
• Operational sales towards defined areas and customers
• Preparation of quotations and manage contract negotiations
• Coordinate customer activities with sales resources within KONGSBERG.
• Order intake budget, prognosis short and long term.
• Projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products
• Attend industry conferences and events.

Qualifications

• Education - bachelor's degree in relevant subject.
• Sales and marketing experience within the maritime industry.
• Experience in customer negotiation, sales and commercial processes.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

 This employment may require security clearance by the Norwegian National Security Authority, clearance through Civil Aviation Authority or a background check. For more information visit www.nsm.no.

You are able to

• Develop an ambitious, but realistic business vision and translate it into a workable strategy
• Identify commercial opportunities and have a strong positive impact on business growth and profitability
• Convince and persuade others and promote plans and ideas successfully
• Build a network of contacts and relationships and utilizes it to achieve objectives
• Produce fresh and imaginative ideas and solutions
• Communicate in a clear, precise and structured way

What we can offer you
With us, you will be offered a competitive salary and benefit packages with good development opportunities in an international environment. We have flexible work hours and holiday arrangements and offer a very competitive benefits package. We offer an inspiring and safe work-environment and the possibility to work with sustainable solutions for the future.

Work location
Norway, Aberdeen, Rotterdam, Hamburg or Alicante.

Point of contact

Kjetil Nilsen, VP Sales, EMEA +47 95 73 32 88

Vidar Bjørkedal, VP Sales Seatex +4790137390

At Kongsberg, we believe in tackling challenging problems and delivering extreme performance for extreme conditions. We do that through excellent products and services developed for delivering the greatest benefits to our customers.