Zuerich
Team Leader Sales Acceleration – Motion and Drives 80-100%
- 04 November 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Zuerich
Job summary
Join Siemens, a leading tech firm, shaping the future together.
Tasks
- Lead a team of experts in automation solutions for clients.
- Drive strategies for customer development and market expansion.
- Ensure smooth operations and effective collaboration within the team.
Skills
- A degree in tech or business with sales experience is essential.
- Strong leadership in multicultural teams is required.
- Proficient in German and English, French is a plus.
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About the job
Together with our customers, we connect the real and the digital world.
As one of the leading technology companies, Siemens employs around 6000 people in Switzerland. With our pioneering solutions in building technology, energy, mobility, health, and industry, we shape the future.
Do you want to lead a team of experts, consolidate technical know-how, and inspire customers with first-class and tailored automation solutions?
As an agile leader, you embody the cultural change regarding digitalisation and AI and actively promote it, transferring your constant willingness to develop to your team. In addition, you are part of the extended leadership circle of the Swiss Siemens DI Sales Organisation and, together with your team, take responsibility for the business development of a defined part of the Siemens DI overall portfolio. Through close collaboration with the sales channels and targeted and coordinated measures, you significantly contribute to increasing sales volume and the future-oriented development of the portfolio.
Do you also want to actively shape the future and influence millions of people in Switzerland? Then you are exactly right with us! Apply today as Team Leader Sales Acceleration – Motion and Drives and start immediately or according to your availability – your team is looking forward to you!
Your new tasks
- You and your team are an integral part of the DI Sales Acceleration organisation, and you take full business responsibility for the technology portfolio group Motion and Drives.
- In this role, you are responsible for all sales, promotion, and technical consulting activities within the portfolio group in Switzerland and lead a team of 9 employees.
- In close cooperation with your team members, you ensure that business operations run smoothly and properly.
- You proactively drive the development of strategies for customer development and increasing market penetration – always in close coordination with the sales teams.
- As a partner, you advise customers on their digital transformation and international business developments.
- Strategic capacity and competence planning are also your responsibility.
- Based on our ownership culture and a pronounced growth mindset, you motivate your team and the entire organisation to continuously improve.
Your talents and experience
- The basis of your success is a completed technical or business degree.
- Building on this, you convince with sales and promotion experience in product and system business within automation technology.
- Additionally, you have knowledge of industry-specific automation solutions, digitalisation and drive technologies, as well as the associated portfolio elements of Siemens Digital Industries.
- You also bring disciplinary and professional leadership experience in multicultural teams and have experience in business responsibility.
- Industry and business expansion, customer orientation, and sales are your passion.
- You are a personality who enables and motivates their organisation to realise its potential in order to achieve ambitious goals together.
- You have experience in international collaboration and are confident in management communication with large customers.
- Your willingness to change, assertiveness, and intercultural competence enable you to collaborate on an equal footing across business areas, sales channels, and regions.
- Your profile is rounded off by fluent German and English skills; knowledge of French would be an advantage.
Your benefits
- 2–3 days/week mobile working is standard
- Discounted public transport pass and free parking spaces
- Training opportunities for both your professional and personal development
- Access to employee share plans
- All benefits can be found here
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The culture at Siemens Switzerland is more than just a working environment – it is the heart of our daily interaction and the key to our success. Siemens Switzerland offers a future-oriented working environment characterised by innovation, sustainability, and personal development. We stand out through personal responsibility, equal opportunities, and diversity, where every employee can contribute authentically. Flexible working models and mobile working are a lived reality with us and enable our employees to achieve a balanced work-life balance. Learn more and discover with our culture quiz whether you fit Siemens!
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I look forward to your application.
Alina
Talent Acquisition Partner
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