Project Manager Business Area Operational Equipment Switzerland, 100%

About the job

Würth AG supplies craftsmen from all trades with quality products and coordinated system solutions around the workshop, warehouse and on the go. The versatile range includes over 150,000 items: from screws, dowels and fittings to tools, machines, chemical-technical products and occupational safety to vehicle equipment and warehouse management. Proven since 1945 and already established in Switzerland since 1962, Würth AG offers customised solutions with the aim of making everyday life easier for its partners. Würth AG, based in Arlesheim (BL), is a company of the globally active Würth Group.

Our customers are diverse: from garages, workshops and craft businesses to industrial and logistics companies as well as municipalities, transport companies and training centres. Wherever workplaces, workshops, warehouses or operating rooms are to be efficiently equipped, we develop suitable overall solutions. As part of our dynamic team, you will take on the nationwide development and operational further development of the business area operational equipment in this newly created role. You accompany projects from the first customer enquiry through planning and calculation to delivery, assembly and successful acceptance. In doing so, you combine technical solution sales, project management and business development. Together with our field and internal sales, our suppliers and the international Würth companies, you will sustainably develop the business area.

Tasks

• You are responsible for the nationwide development and successful growth of the new business area operational equipment
• You identify market potentials, develop sales strategies and open up new customer and market segments
• You advise customers on site, analyse their requirements and plan individual overall solutions and build sustainable customer relationships.
• You manage projects from order receipt to acceptance and coordinate internal specialist departments, suppliers and partners.
• You identify and process public as well as private tenders and consistently follow up on outstanding offers.
• You support the field service, develop standards and reference projects and monitor sales, gross profit and closing rate.

Requirements

• You have completed a technical or commercial-technical vocational training.
• Several years of experience in the sales of garage, operational, warehouse or workshop equipment or comparable capital goods.
• You possess technical understanding, spatial imagination and experience in calculation and offer preparation.
• You think and act like an entrepreneur, recognise opportunities in the market and consistently implement them in successful customer projects.
• You are proficient in office tools, especially Excel, and can also professionally prepare and conduct convincing customer presentations.
• You bring humour, positivity and motivation and are eager to take on responsibility in a dynamic environment.
• You have very good German skills; knowledge of French and English is an advantage.
• You are willing to travel throughout Switzerland and hold a category B driving licence.

We offer

• A key position with high personal responsibility and great scope for design.
• The opportunity to build and shape a strategic business area for Würth Switzerland nationally in the long term.
• Comprehensive induction, international best practices as well as attractive professional and personal development opportunities.
• A competitive overall package with company car for private use, flat-rate expenses, notebook, and other benefits
• Home office