Sales Director Africa
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network for Global Water & Energy (Global Water Engineering N.V.)
We are looking for a Sales Director for Africa to expand our global sales force and contribute to GWE’s business development.
It is a challenging position for motivated, sales and results-driven candidates. The Sales Director will report to the CCO.
Your Tasks & Responsibilities
- Selling complete (waste)water treatment plants, waste-to-energy and biogas utilization installations in the assigned region;
- Frequent visits to the area to identify opportunities for GWE’s clients and prospects.
- Introduction of the GWE’s innovative technologies to the prospects and clients.
- Maintenance and further development of the network of the existing clients, governments, engineering agencies and local advisors.
- Internal communication with the GWE’s sales and engineering team to deliver the economically attractive solution tailored to the clients’ requirements and local conditions.
Candidate’s profile:
- Technical bachelor education.
- Sales driven, deal closer, enthusiastic, flexible, pro-active
- Multiple years of sales experience in the industry (preferred wastewater/ biogas/ energy).
- Experience with long sales projects with complex DMU’s.
- Recognizable network in the food industry.
- Clients of GWE are local organizations as well as multinationals, mainly active in the food & beverage, starch, distilleries, palm oil, paper & pulp industry and semi-private solid waste companies. The affinity with the mentioned industries as the existing contact network is an advantage.
- Frequent traveling (35% of the time).
Industry experience
Education: Bachelor
Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant
Years of experience: 10 to 20 years
Taxonomy
- Sales & Marketing
- Sales
- Technical Sales Representative
- Sales & Marketing
- Water Treatment Chemicals Sales & Services