Sales Director Central Europe (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

Lead sales activity in Central Europe for Onshore Wind.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Driving and championing the commercial strategy for the Central Europe Region
• Represent the Central Europe sales region within GEV's commercial organization and fight for the region's needs and requirements to achieve its agreed targets
• Manage and support the local sales team to grow their individually assigned customers and regions
• Acting as the team's customer escalation point for customer issues
• Define an implement the strategy for advocacy and associations with the new Customer Excellence Leader, representing GEV externally in Advocacy, Associations and other market enablers
• Agree individual Customer Development Strategies with the regular AMs to influence their buying behavior towards GEV
• Own the information flow to the Marketing team with market insights for Central Europe for LTS, Account reviews, Germany TAM
• Double digit growth of profitable backlog in Germany
• Improve and enhance the presence, awareness and reputation about GEV Wind in Germany
• Build, develop and grow a world class sales team

• Performance relative to growing GEV's position in the Central European markets and with it's customers for their business within and outside the region.
• Performance relative to Goals & Objectives developed in cooperation with Chief Commercial Officer International around key responsibilities

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline, Finance, and/or advanced business degree with applicable industry experience
• Practical understanding of: current/emerging requirements of the wind power markets; and customer financial drivers and needs
• Established strong wind industry network in Germany
• Proven track record of relevant sales and/or business development experience in the wind power industry
• Strong communication skills and confidence with executive level presentations
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and negotiation skills; ability to work with colleagues and customers at all levels of the organizations
• Flexible for frequent travel
• Consistent track record of meeting performance objectives
• Self-starter with high energy and ability to energize others
• Fluency in both German and English.