Key Account Manager

Our client is an internationally active Swiss company with a modern orientation, high innovative strength and long-standing market presence. You can expect a professional, dynamic environment with global networking, short decision-making paths and plenty of room for initiative. The company offers • Diverse and responsible tasks in a leading company • Exciting and growing market environment with great potential • International work environment with global customers and projects • Opportunity to actively shape the change in a future-oriented industry • Demanding technical solutions with high customer benefits • Close collaboration with internal departments and international contacts • Scope for designing account strategies • Collegial environment with short decision-making paths and high personal responsibility Requirements profile • Completed technical training in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics or a comparable field • Further education in the commercial or technical field, for example business engineering or business administration • At least 5 years of solid sales experience as a Key Account Manager • Experience in selling complex technical products • Industry knowledge in the automotive environment is an advantage • Experience in managing international sales projects • Willingness to familiarize yourself with new technologies, markets and applications • Global mindset, hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking • Willingness to travel of around 30 to 40 percent • Very good German and English language skills • Other foreign languages are an advantage • Good user knowledge of MS Office • Communicative, team-oriented and persuasive personality • Quick comprehension, structured and solution-oriented work • Initiative, flexibility, resilience and high sense of responsibility Tasks • Intensive care of global key accounts with a focus on Europe and North Africa • Expansion of business volume through the development and promotion of new business fields • Development of customer-specific sales strategies within the global orientation • Creation of sales plans as well as market and competitor analyses • Application-related consulting and training of customers • Building and maintaining long-term customer relationships at decision-maker and expert level • Interface function between key customers and internal teams • Accompaniment of international sales projects from inquiry to implementation • Active market observation and identification of new potential • Representation of the company at customer visits, meetings and technical topics • Close collaboration with technology, product management, sales and other internal departments