Inside Sales Engineer

At Alfa Laval, we always go that extra mile to overcome the toughest challenges. Our driving force is to accelerate success for our customers, people and planet. You can only achieve that by having dedicated people with a curious mind. Curiosity is the spark behind great ideas. And great ideas drive progress.

As a member of our team, you thrive in a truly diverse and inclusive workplace based on care and empowerment. You are here to make a difference. Constantly building bridges to the future with sustainable solutions that have an impact on our planet’s most urgent problems. Making the world a better place. Every day.

Who you are?

You are a self-driven person with a structured way of working and a drive for reaching results within sales. Is motivated by building and maintaining customer relationships through interactions, mainly by use of digital tools. Finding and growing new customers are of high important to you. You are a strong networker and influencer having the ability to create, develop and maintain strong customer relations also on a distance. You have a strong commercial focus and have an interest in technical solutions.

About the job

As an Inside Sales Engineer you will be working mainly with Separation Equipment focusing on customers within the Food & Water markets. You will be part of a Nordic sales team dedicated to selling Separation equipment. You will be in close cooperation with the Market Area Manager and the sales team as well as other entities in the company, including back-end technical support.

Key Tasks

With your ability to understand the customers and their specific needs, the main tasks in the job are:

• Follow established sales processes and guidelines to promote and sell Alfa Laval Products and services.
• Develop technical quotes reflecting the customer needs stressing the unique selling points and follow up.
• Provide direct support to customers during the quotation process by utilizing the advanced technical support available internally (including sizing & selection of solutions)
• Communicate technical knowledge and key advantages effectively.
• Actively use digital tools (CRM, etc.) to analyze and understand market insights to plan and execute the sales plan.

What you know

You probably have a degree in engineering or maybe you are graduating soon. Most importantly is your ability to build relationships internally and externally, and your eagerness to reach targets. Knowledge from Food & Water industries and/or technical sales is highly valued. You should be fluent in Norwegian and English.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a challenging position in a dynamic environment where we together create value and support each other. We have a strong focus on your development and will make sure that you are working towards your own goals together with our goals. Based on great tools, support and training you are empowered to meet customers in a technical and professional way. You will have freedom to operate and take responsibility. This position is based in our office in Norway, Sandvika, where you will have a colleague from the team as support.

For more information regarding the position, please contact:

Market Area Manager, Food & Water Separation, Søren Johansen at +45 6056 4686.

Please send your motivational application and CV in one document no later than April 20th 2024.

We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.