Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.
Protecting people and the environment, and optimizing industrial processes - that is what drives us at Freudenberg Filtration Technologies. We serve our automotive, consumer goods and industrial customers with technically leading products, system solutions, services and consulting in air and liquid filtration. As part of the Freudenberg Group, strong corporate values guide us in our aspiration for innovation, efficiency and highest customer focus. With a dedicated team of around 3,500 colleagues, we generate an annual turnover of about 670 million euros.
Some of your Benefits
* Company Car: Benefit from a company car every time you drive.
* Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
* Performance Related Bonus: When you have an impact, you can reap the rewards.
* Personal Development: We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career.
* Sustainability & Social Commitment: We support social and sustainable projects and encourage employee involvement.
Location: Crewe. Hybrid Work. Company: Freudenberg Filtration Technologies UK Limited.
Market Manager - Turbomachinery
Responsibilities
* Drive commercial growth: Design and execute strategic sales plans, set and deliver sales/SGP targets, develop forecasts, monitor market trends, and create innovative upselling programmes.
* Customer and contract leadership: Build strong, long-term customer relationships; lead pricing strategy; negotiate contracts and terms; and resolve escalated customer issues to ensure contractual obligations are met.
* Business and performance oversight: Work with the MD on monthly and annual targets, track profitability, and ensure the service team consistently delivers against customer and business requirements.
* Team leadership and development: Recruit, coach, and performance-manage direct reports through clear objectives, targets, standards, and regular 1:1 reviews.
* Cross-functional and operational excellence: Ensure effective collaboration across departments, run regular key account meetings, and promote best-practice sharing within the sales organisation.
* Professional standards and ways of working: Act as a role model aligned to company values, continuously develop professional expertise, and ensure effective use of sales tools and CRM systems.
Qualifications
* Essential: University degree in a technical, engineering, or business discipline with 15+ years’ experience in sales and sales management, including selling intangible solutions or service-based offerings.
* Essential: Proven ability to coach and develop direct reports to higher performance, accurately forecast sales turnover, and effectively manage pipeline and closing activities using CRM systems.
* Essential: Excellent communication and negotiation skills, self-driven and highly motivated, results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency and confidence in making timely decisions.
* Desirable: Previous experience in managing a sales team.
* Desirable: Previous sales experience in automotive industry.
* Desirable: Previous track record in selling service package.
* Desirable: Industry knowledge in filtration.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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