Key Account Manager (m/w/d)

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From the automotive industry to process automation, from the food industry to the packaging industry: our inventive spirit is at home in over 35 industries to develop tailor-made solutions for automation technology. But what would our technology be without the people who inspire others with it? That is why we are looking for sales engineers with passion and vision. Who find exactly the freedom they need to inspire our customers again and again with the best solutions. Welcome to Festo.

Festo Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG is an independent national company of Festo AG. With around 800 employees, we are present throughout Germany with the aim of inspiring our customers. With an eye for the big picture. And a love of detail. Welcome to our sales team.

Key Account Manager (m/w/d)

Greater Graz / Styria area

• You will assume national responsibility for our TOP customers in Styria and develop them in the long term through operational and strategic measures.
• As Key Account Manager you are the interface to the customer and are responsible for the identification, acquisition and realization of projects and solutions.
• Your work will focus on expanding the key account for the entire service portfolio, particularly in new technologies, standard programs and customer-specific solutions.
• You will be involved in systematic customer processing and the development of new market potential.
• Together with the specialist departments, you will develop application solutions in a team-selling approach, taking into account industry-specific customer requirements, and assume technical responsibility from the concept phase through to phase-out management.

• You have completed technical training in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, automation technology or a comparable qualification and have knowledge of business administration.
• Building on this, you have several years of experience in the sale of automation technology products/systems requiring explanation and in the support of networked key accounts.
• You enjoy price negotiations and can look back on positive negotiations including the implementation of the results.
• You are characterized by a high degree of initiative and independence, entrepreneurial thinking and action, a confident manner and reliability.
• You will impress with your excellent communication skills and team spirit.
• Your profile is rounded off by a very good command of German and English.
• The position is a field service job. You will therefore manage your work from your home office, be willing to travel within Austria and be prepared to relocate to the sales area, the greater Graz area.

• The good feeling working for a family-owned company with a safe and solid financial basis
• Freedom to explore, innovate and realise your own ideas
• Respect and appreciation for each other - regardless of gender, nationality, disability, age and identity
• Lifelong learning with great conditions for individual further development
• Highly modern working environment, infrastructure and communication technologies
• For this position, a gross salary above the collective agreement is offered from EUR 65.000 (38.5 hours/week), a corresponding overpayment is considered depending on specific qualifications and experience

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