Senior Director Sales

**Senior Director Sales - Product Lines Thermoformers & Cutters (M/F/d)**:
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success - come and join them We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA

**Job information**

**Reference Number**

JR-0030295

**Job function**

Sales

**Position type**

Full time

**Site**

Im Ruttert 1, 35216 Wallau - Biedenkopf
- Are you looking for a new challenge and want to develop yourself further? Then we should get to know each other At our location in Biedenkopf Wallau, we are looking for a motivated Senior Director Sales - Product Lines Thermoformers & Cutters (M/F/d) to start as soon as possible. In this role you will lead a team of 10 employees and report directly to the Vice President Sales BU Food Application Solutions. GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH in Biedenkopf-Wallau is a leading supplier of innovative equipment and technologies for the food processing industry. We offer a wide range of products and services, including processing equipment, packaging solutions, conveyor technology and automation systems.- Your responsibilities and tasks:
- Fiscal year topline responsibility for Product Lines Thermoforming & Cutters
- Be the sales representative in the local management team
- Take over responsibility for coordinating and driving strategic and operational sales activities
- Enhance the sale process to reduce response times to stakeholders as well as to shorten quotation cycles
- Evaluate and optimize pricing methodologies and establish a new pricing governance to improve gross margins
- Develop an optimize Route2Market strategy for Thermoforming & Cutters
- Drive an active Sales Performance Management based on KPIs
- Develop a guided-selling approach and support the implementation of a configurator/ CPQ Tool

Your profile and qualifications:

- University degree in business administration, engineering or equivalent
- Over 3 years of experience in managing a global sales and marketing team within a matrix organization of an international company
- Deep commercial knowledge and understanding, incl. contract management
- Goal and performance orientation
- Leadership skills to build an international and high-performing team
- Strong strategic mindset and entrepreneurial thinking
- Good balance between analytical skills, a structure working mode and hands-on mentality
- Fluency in English, another European language would be an advantage
- Willingness to travel approx. 20% (national and international)

What we offer
- Modern working environment in a multinational company
- Mobile working
- Company car for private use or mobility allowance
- 30 days annual leave
- Internal and external trainings for personal development
- JobRad
- Company restaurant (subsidized)
- Access to the GEA portal for employee benefits (travel discounts, shopping vouchers, etc.)