Field Sales Representative for the Romandy and Ticino Regions | 100% (m/f/d)

About the job

With around 100 employees, voestalpine High Performance Metals Suisse SA is the Swiss subsidiary of the voestalpine group, an international technology and industrial goods group based on steel. We offer our demanding industrial customers throughout Switzerland comprehensive services regarding the selection and processing of stainless steel materials offered and surface treatment solutions.

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge with responsibilities, are you dynamic and full of energy? If you have a sense of initiative, responsibility, and the ability to inspire your colleagues, we should definitely get to know each other. We are looking, immediately or by agreement, for a pragmatic, experienced, and dynamic personality to strengthen our motivated sales team at the voestalpine High Performance Metals Schweiz AG site in Wallisellen: a colleague for external sales service for the Romandy and Ticino regions | 100% (m/f/d).

Your tasks:

• Technical and commercial advice to our industrial customers
• Targeted follow-up and development of existing customer relationships
• Active prospecting of new customers and exploitation of new market potentials
• Analysis of customer applications and development of technically and economically suitable solutions
• Independent management and development of your sales area
• Support of customer projects, from technical study to successful conclusion
• Preparation and follow-up of offers in collaboration with the internal sales department
• Close cooperation with our technical department and production sites
• Monitoring the market, competition, and technological developments
• Management of sales activities and customer information in CRM and SAP
• Participation in the preparation of forecasts and budgets, as well as the organisation of seminars and customer events

Your profile:

• Completed technical training, for example as a toolmaker, polymechanic, or equivalent technical qualification
• Ideally, additional training in sales or business management
• Several years of experience in technical sales or external sales service, ideally at least 5 years
• Good understanding of industrial manufacturing processes and customers’ technical applications
• Basic knowledge of metallurgy and heat treatment
• Knowledge in the fields of tool steel, stainless steel, surface treatments, tool manufacturing, and metal machining
• Strong customer and solution orientation, as well as a keen interest in actively prospecting new customers
• Negotiation talent and ability to close sales
• High sense of responsibility and an independent, structured working method
• Communicative, empathetic, and engaging personality
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office; experience with SAP and CRM systems would be an advantage
• Very good command of French and Italian, as well as good knowledge of German and English
• Category B driving licence

Our offer:

• Great autonomy and significant scope in your sales area
• Exciting technical applications with demanding industrial customers
• Support from experienced technical specialists and a professional internal sales team
• A modern working environment within a successful and internationally active company
• Modern employment conditions and attractive social benefits (100% coverage of daily sickness insurance premiums)
• 5 weeks of holiday plus additional days off between Christmas and New Year
• Participation in initial and ongoing trainingLoyalty bonuses and sabbatical leave options
• Free parking for employees
• Other attractive benefits of the voestalpine groupCompany car also for private use

Start date immediate or by agreement

Have we aroused your interest? If so, please send us your complete application dossier (cover letter, CV, etc.) by e-mail.

For this vacancy, we gladly accept applications from recruitment agencies, provided they accept our currently valid general terms and conditions of sale (GTC). Sending the documents constitutes firm acceptance of our GTC.