Area Sales Lead Data Center & AI Infrastructure (m/f/d)

About the job

Working at Schneider Electric – We are your Energy Technology Partner

Schneider Electric is the place where your work makes a real impact. By electrifying, automating, and digitising the world, we actively drive the energy transition forward. You will become part of inclusive teams working on meaningful challenges and contributing your skills to solutions that make industries, communities, and our planet more sustainable.

Welcome to the future of digital infrastructure

Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, and data-driven applications are fundamentally changing how companies produce, scale, and grow. The digital transformation across all end-customer segments, the massive expansion of AI workloads, high-performance computing environments, and digital platforms lead to a sharply increasing demand for highly available, energy-efficient, and scalable IT, power, and cooling infrastructure. In the Secure Power business unit, Schneider Electric supports cloud & service providers as well as end customers from regulated and mission-critical industries to operate their digital business models securely, sustainably, and future-proof.

As an Area Sales Manager (m/f/d) in the "Commercial & Industrial" segments, you actively shape this growth – throughout the entire lifecycle of modern digital infrastructures.

All important information at a glance:

• When and where? Starting immediately in Gümligen / Bern or Baden / Zurich
• Duration: Permanent
• Holiday: At least 5 weeks
• Weekly hours: 40 hours
• Your contact person: Larissa Niederberger as Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Your responsibility and mission:

• Support and development of end customers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland with a focus on edge infrastructure, AI applications, and data centres
• Positioning of Secure Power solutions for AI workloads, data-intensive applications, and digital services
• Consulting and sales of solutions in the areas of UPS, cooling, power, monitoring, and digital services
• Identification, development, and closing of new and existing projects with industrial customers
• Building long-term customer relationships as a sparring partner at engineering and management levels

Your mindset:

• Technician HF or degree in electrical engineering, IT, or similar
• Several years of experience in sales of complex infrastructure, technology, or services, ideally in the data centre, IT infrastructure, cloud, or critical infrastructure environment
• Understanding of AI market trends, high power densities, and their technical impacts
• Experience dealing with end customers from mission-critical industries
• Strong in consultative & value-based selling, both strategic and operational, with a hands-on mentality and a healthy "can-do" attitude
• Very good language skills in German and English, French is an advantage

Our benefits:

• Work with purpose! With us, you can help shape a more sustainable future
• Variety: With us, you can dive into different topics and get to know your strengths better
• We give you the freedom to make your own decisions and take responsibility
• Thanks to a company car and our flexible working time models, you can easily balance job, leisure, and family.
• We offer you an exciting training programme and attractive development prospects within an international corporation
• Our technologies and services are modern, digital, and diverse – dive into a world full of possibilities

Your next step? Apply online, of course!

Please upload your application on our job portal. We look forward to receiving your application!