Hybrid Sales Engineer

at Vanderlande

• Job title: Sales Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Veghel, Netherlands

About the role

• Sales Engineer supporting the creation of innovative, effective process-automated solutions for clients. Collaborating on technical aspects and ensuring smooth project execution in logistic processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide support during the pre-contract phase by identifying customer needs and translating them into successful sales concepts.
• Contribute to solving complex technical and business challenges through data and process analysis, as well as concept development during the proposal phase.
• Assist in advising customers to meet their requirements.
• Collaborate in developing concepts and proposals within the team to create competitive and high-quality offers.
• Support the creation of layouts based on material flow diagrams in cooperation with Sales Layout Engineers and translate these into detailed pricing specifications.
• Manage pricing specifications across multiple projects and assist in preparing technical specifications for procurement items.
• Participate in the handover phase with the project management team to ensure a smooth transition and successful implementation.
• Support project management in handling customer requirement deviations from the contract (Change Request Management).

Requirements

• Completed a degree in mechanical engineering, logistics or a comparable field of study
• First experience with complex sales processes, ideally within the automated material handling industry or a related industry and a focus on carbon footprint measurement and reduction strategies
• Analytical skills, you can create concept solutions based on your analysis and understanding of our customers' logistic processes.
• Proficient communicational skills, you have a creative and efficient approach to building professional client relationships
• Experience in working within an international professional environment, preferably a project-driven organization
• Excellent command of the English language, both verbal and written, as well as willingness to travel up to 30%

Benefits

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days)
• Flexible working hours
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office)
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport
• Working from home allowance
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance