Sales Engineer
Johannesburg, ZA, 1462
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
Scope of the Job
The main purpose of the role is to provide product knowledge with a commercial mind set to the sales functions to ensure product suitability and optimized performance to support business objectives and targets.
Job Objective:
- To be the Sales Engineer Support to Market Africa private importers (complete continent of Africa excluding South Africa and Morocco) in a commercial way.
- Working closely with the local sales team and market directors.
- Actively participate in customer visits and activities.
- Always have updated product offer strategy, optimize product range and specifications to meet market strategy & targets for Market Africa.
- To support Product competence development.
- Contribute to offer structure and provide product customer adaptation.
- To do Competitor analysis.
- Product, Market and Transport industry segmentation.
- Continuously maintain product offering tools and related systems to be updated from product and sales standpoint.
- Secure that correct and adequate product information and relevant product tools are released and distributed to the markets.
- Monitor and develop the progress of future demands of the product range, product segmentation, competition, bodybuilders, legal activities.
- Actively work with complete customer solutions including complete vehicles, superstructures and advanced transport solutions.
- You will ensure effective leadership, coordination and general direction to reflect and promote the company’s mission, vision, aspirations and values.
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:
Qualification & Experience:
- National Diploma in Engineering.
- Preferred Experience, Technical Skills and Knowledge.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the automotive industry.
- Basic understanding of vehicle legislation.
- Experience in Volvo Trucks Businesses and Products (Advantageous).
- Experience in Volvo Trucks Systems, Tool (Advantageous).
- International Experience (Advantageous).
Key Competencies
- Automotive application knowledge.
- Vehicle legislation application.
- Heavy automotive technical knowledge (essential; intermediate).
- Systems and processes (essential; intermediate).
- Computer literacy – (essential; intermediate level).
- Team player.
- Customer first mindset.
- Commercial mindset.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Communication skills (oral, written).
- Interpersonal skills (networking).
- Fluent in English.
Short listed candidates must complete and sign personal verification permission, consent and indemnity declarations, to inter alia perform reference, criminal, credit, qualification, vetting process (if applicable to position) and any other checks deemed necessary.
Volvo Group Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage people with disability to apply.
Application Closing Date: 17 February 2026.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.