Sales Development Account Manager - Central Europe (m/f/d)

Are you passionate about digital sales and creating a superior customer experience?

Then we are looking for you to join our Molex team in our Walldorf office.

In our Sales Development Account Manager (m/f/d) role you will seek to understand the customer needs and offer appropriate Molex products/solutions to meet these requirements.

You will have the opportunity to promote and sell our products to drive profitable growth within your assigned market in Central Europe.

This is an office-based role, where we are offering a hybrid working model. The travel requirement is around 15%.

Our Team

Our diverse sales team of 7 highly motivated sales professionals passionately strive for market leadership, developing innovative solutions for our clients.

With their technical knowledge, strong negotiation, and interpersonal skills, they work together with innovative customers from startups to established OEMs to design the electronic devices of the future.

What You Will Do

• Drive profitable growth within a defined territory or market
• Develop, foster and expand customer network by applying traditional and digital sales tactics
• Manage and maintain individual pipeline
• Support with complex Request for Quotations (RFQs) and pricing negotiations
• Resolve conflicts and provide solutions to customers
• Develop new and innovative ideas that enhance the customer’s experience
• Capture and fulfill both technical and commercial customer requirements in collaboration with multiple Business Units
• Work with lead generation and marketing teams to understand and nurture leads through multiple digital and social media channels
• Work hand-in-hand with our customers to understand their needs, challenges, and growth opportunities and collaborate with them to develop and deliver a customized growth strategy

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Excellent selling, communication and negotiation skills
• Fluent communication skills in German and English
• Open-minded towards digital sales tactics to grow business (i.e., digital marketing and social media)
• Comfortable with using modern communication technology to develop and perform presentations and demos virtually and thinking in a creative, non-linear fashion
• Strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team and engage customers
• Technical understanding to be able to advise our customers

What Will Put You Ahead

• University degree in sales, a technical field (electronics, mechatronics or similar) or business administration
• Experience working in the electronics industry
• Experience working with or for a distribution network
• Electronic application and connector knowledge
• Experience using SAP and Salesforce
• Other language skills, especially Eastern Europe languages

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better.

Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.