Sales and Application Engineer focus NEW TECHNOLOGIES, Industrial Segment, South Europe
Milano, IT, 20151
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
Volvo Penta is looking for a Sales Application Engineer for the industrial segment located in the Market Unit Italy (Milan). Market Unit Italy belongs to the South Europe Hub including France, Spain, Portugal and other smaller countries.
In the South Europe hub we support some of Volvo Penta’s key industrial OEMs.
The industrial segment at Volvo Penta offers world class drive line solutions for a broad variety of applications, such as gensets, material handling, agriculture, mining and so on. The segment has grown steadily in the recent years, mainly with new projects concerning the new emissions portfolio.
As Sales Application Engineer your main responsibility is to provide our OEM customers with an efficient technical sales and installation engineering support.
A key focus will be to grow the new technology business thought prospecting and approaching new stakeholders. The Volvo Penta new technologies solutions include dual fuel engines, energy storage systems, electric drivelines and so on.
We are looking for a customer-focused person with strong commitment and engagement to support our OEMs and dealers and further develop the business with us.
The position is based in Milan, Italy but involves frequent travelling within Italy, France, Spain and occasional travels abroad. You will report to the Sales Manager for South Europe.
Who are you?
To be successful in this role we want you to utilize your technical and customer-oriented skills to ensure the best possible installation of our products in our OEMs machines, and that their end customers get maximum performance from their Volvo Penta products.
To succeed you will need to work in very close collaboration with your peers at the customer, e.g. OEM engineering & design functions, to build an understanding of their needs and requirements. You will also work closely with key internal stakeholders to promote the OEM requirements as well as getting their support to succeed. This position is a part of a team with skilled and inspired colleagues that will contribute to your success but also count on you to support them in their daily work. Together with your colleagues you will build a customer team with the overall responsibility, technically and commercially, for the total driveline business for your respective customers.
Qualifications:
- Italian mother tongue
- Relevant technical education – university degree is a merit
- Relevant work experience, e.g. design or testing of heavy-duty machinery or driveline components
- Experience in electromobility is a strong plus
- Support and team-oriented personality with integrity and good communication skills
- Fluent in English is a prerequisite, additional languages such as Spanish and French are a strong advantage.
At Volvo Penta we are actively working to establish groups consisting of differences in experience, age, gender and nationality to get a maximum advantage of the strength through diversity.
If you see yourself in this role, and want to join a winning team, we look forward to hearing from you!
For further information please contact:
Ilenia Procicchiani, Industrial Sales - Domenico Pietropaolo, Local manager
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Who we are and what we believe in
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Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Volvo Penta, a world-leading supplier of engines and complete drive systems for marine and industrial applications, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who works with passion, trust each other and embraces change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.