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Essential Resources. For Life.

Your resources. Our resources. The world’s resources. From our residential and business solutions that help people move, improve and enjoy their water, to our sustainable innovations and applications, Pentair makes the most of life’s essential resources.

Pentair’s Sustainable Gas Solutions, contribute to this Mission by supplying CO2 Technologies to Recover, Extract and Generate Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Biogas Upgrading solutions turning Biogas waste into Revenue Streams (Biomethane and CO2), helping our clients to lower their carbon and energy footprint, and protecting the environment. Currently we sell and service our products in more than 150 countries around the world in the Food & Beverage and Biogas industries.

In order to achieve further growth, we are looking for a:

Technical Sales Manager – Venlo, NL

Job Description

The position of Technical SalesManager – Sales Support is a pivotal role in the technical bid management process. You will be a key member of the Sales Support team focused on collaborating with the SGS Product Center Operations, SGS Regional Execution Centers and SGS Sales Support Leader. The Technical Sales Manager will manage a global team of technical bid engineers that has the skills to prepare technical packages for CTO and complex ETO bids, whilst taking ownership of the technical support activities in the end-to-end bid process.

Duties And Responsibilities

• You are expected to take the full responsibility for the technical solution during the Sales phase. As well, as manage the technical support activities in the end-to-end bid process.
• Proactively drive the technical value engineering of customer projects and lead technical scope preparation and negotiations as an active member of the Sales team.
• Ensure timely responses to customer enquiries, collaborating with the sales support manager to prepare technical packages, clarifications and deviations to CTO and ETO Bids, as well as technical annexes and contract schedules.
• Manage virtual technical bid teams and inputs from key stakeholders, typically engaging with engineering, technology, field service, supply chain and factory operations.
• Understand and resolve complex technical and business issues.
• Prepare and review the technical aspects of the bid, ensuring all products / services are included in the final offering to the customer.
• Risk tracking and management throughout the bid process.
• Contributing to the written proposal - in terms of both content and presentation (such as providing guidance around technical scope and deviations).
• Ensure timescales are achieved at each step of the bid process, including all internal governance, while taking the initiative in setting realistic deadlines.
• Drive continuous improvement, through post-bid reviews, both internally and with customers.
  
  

Profile

• Bachelor degree, preferably in a technical or commercial field
• Background in equipment manufacturing and/or process industry company
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a bid proposals environment
• Minimum 5 years of leading technical negotiations, ideally of heavy machinery, biogas upgrading equipment, CO2 recovery or similar, is a significant benefit
• Good communicator with excellent verbal and written skills in English and Dutch. A third language (German/French) is a plus
• Leadership skills, ability to influence others being flexible and adaptable
• Good organization skills, work ethics, self-driven, communicative team player
• Excellent commercial, creative and solution-oriented skills
• Proactive, energetic and conceptual with a hands-on mindset
• Experience with a PLM system
  
  

Pentair offers

The opportunity to work in a fun, dynamic, internationally oriented company with a pleasant atmosphere. Interesting career prospects and excellent working conditions. You can also rely on us to motivate, challenge and allow you freedom so that you will enjoy coming to work every day.

Your Application

If you are interested in this challenging position, please apply through the link below and add your motivation together with an up to date resume.

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/ Products CO2 recovery and Biogas upgrading

Diversity And Inclusion

With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day. Race, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, age, personal style, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, life experiences and many more factors contribute to this diversity.

We take ongoing action to improve the diversity of our workforce by:

• Ensuring leadership involvement and ownership
• Attracting and retaining diverse talent at all levels
• Fostering a globally aware, inclusive culture
• Ensuring our practices are fair and non-discriminatory