Back to all jobs
Visible on IKONS todayNewPopular

Sales Engineer

North HollandHybrid40 hours/week<3months

As a technical expert, you support customers in their decisions.

  • You bring together application specifications in Industry, Water, and Energy with an extensive product portfolio.
  • You listen to customer plans, ask critical questions, and understand technical challenges.
  • You help customers with unique solutions that fit their installation, process, or revision.
  • You interact with technical managers, plant managers, project leaders, and process operators.
  • You inform about product features, applications, and benefits, sharing in-depth knowledge.
  • You prepare detailed quotes, substantiating your advice with technical feasibility, cost efficiency, and a practical translation of customer wishes.
  • You build trust through good contact, technical knowledge, and clear agreements for valuable projects and lasting relationships.
  • You collaborate with experienced colleagues focusing on the water market.
  • You can count on a dedicated team of technical engineers and professionals for calculations, drawings, and pump selection.

What you do

  • You play a crucial role in converting technical specifications into actual orders.
  • You possess extensive technical expertise, gladly share your knowledge, and select the right products based on medium, capacity, and required pressure.
  • Create detailed quotes based on customer specifications, including technical feasibility, cost-efficiency, and customer needs.
  • Share product knowledge with customers, extensively informing them about product features, applications, and benefits.
  • Maintain strong relationships with existing and potential customers to ensure customer satisfaction and increase sales opportunities.
  • Collaborate closely with production, engineering, and logistics to ensure correct execution and timely delivery of customer orders.
  • Support the external sales team in developing account management.
  • Manage all sales-related documentation, such as order information, customer data, and quote data, in CRM systems for unique customer-specific solutions.

What they ask

  • Technical background at HBO (higher professional education) level and a commercial mindset.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English.
  • German language proficiency is a plus.
  • Proactive attitude and not hesitating to gather information from colleagues and customers.
  • Some administrative experience.
  • Proficient with MS Office programs.
  • Enthusiasm for the role and being a true team player are more important than prior familiarity with products and applications.

What you can further develop.

  • Your knowledge of valves, pumps, and pump installations.
  • Working with various systems to manage customer and application data effectively.
  • Your commercial skills such as customer contact and sales techniques.
  • Collaboration in project teams.

Practical

  • You will gain technical content, responsibility, and room to perform your work diligently.
  • You will work in an organization large enough to be well-regulated and personal enough for everyone to know each other.
  • Variety in a technically challenging environment (water market) where custom products can be widely applied.
  • Responsibility; customers rely on your technical expertise and administrative accuracy.
  • A strong bond with your customers and colleagues.
  • In-company training and the right tools for broad development.
  • Salary in line with your profile and experience, including a home office allowance and bonus.
  • Contract type: fixed-term, with a view to permanent employment.
  • Structured onboarding process to gradually get acquainted with colleagues, the workplace, and technology.

How to apply

View the full assignment text and application details once your tailored application is ready.

Order a tailored application to view the full assignment and application details.

More context, less searching.

You get enough context to judge whether this job is relevant. The full brief, client details and next steps stay available inside the app.