What we are looking for:Individuals that are friendly and genuinely care about the happiness of the people around them. Someone that has a can-do attitude and asks, "what else can I do?", a real team player who provides - and values - honest improvement-oriented feedback. We need people that take accountability for their actions and pride in their work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Actively develop new business in assigned regions and implement measures to exploit market potential
- Manage existing customers
- Competently support customers and Sales Reps / distributors in technical questions and applications
- Independently negotiate with customers and Sales Reps / distributors within corporate guidelines
- Meet sales / profit targets
- Extensive business travel to promote Hermle products to customers in designated area
- Periodic overseas travel to Germany for training, maintaining product knowledge and customer visits
- Attendance at trade shows and open houses
- Self-motivating home office-based working
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:- At least ten years of sales experience within the high-end machine tool industry
- Graduate engineer (mechanical or electrical) or equal work-related experience with profound knowledge in the machine tool industry
- Negotiation skills and results driven thinking
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Customer satisfaction, focus oriented thinking
- Proven record in successfully selling high end machine tools in competitive markets
- Microsoft Office knowledge is mandatory
- Several years of sales organization management
- Preferred locations: Northern Illinois / Indiana / Kentucky
