Area Sales Manager - Kolkatta

Join Alfa Laval Team as Area Sales Manager based at Kolkata

Join us as our Area Sales Manager based in Kolkata to advance and learn alongside accomplished business leaders to help customers around the world to optimize their processes and enable growth!

About the Company:

In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allow our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do.

Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers’ processes. our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment, and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead.

Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com .

The position / About the job:

Key Responsibilities in this role:

• Build, nurture and maintain strong relationship with customers.
• Continuously look for sales opportunities and generate leads.
• Proactive work to generate leads through product promotion, customer events, seminars, etc.
• Convert leads into active inquiries by working closely with the customers, promoting our product, application, solutions expertise.
• Actively convert quotations into purchase orders/contracts by close interaction with customers on performance, technical and commercial clarifications.
• Tackle and fight competition; negotiate and close the requirement/contracts. Seek techno-commercially clear purchase order from customer.
• During order execution, work as a communication link with customers, coordinate internally so as to achieve smooth execution and customer satisfaction.
• Be responsible for setting and achieving monthly/quarterly/yearly order intake targets.

Who you are?

As an Area Sales Manager based in Kolkata location for our Food and Water Divsion Sales team you will

represent Alfa Laval Food & Water Division as the Sales manager in the Eastern India Region for capital sales of separation and thermal equipment and solutions. You will provide seamless customer experience during all phases of business as face of Alfa Laval and secure consistent order intake, grow sales.

What you can be?

• Graduate Engineer, Chemical or mechanical, from reputed institute. Degree/diploma in management (Marketing or sales) would be an added advantage
• 4 - 5 years of overall functional experience in Sales, Sales support, Proposals for capital goods.
• Industry experience: from process engineering, manufacturing, equipment supply
• Working experience with Food/Pharma/Sugar/Starch/Distillery/Food processing is must
• Customers in previous organization. Or direct experience working in above industries.
• Working experience in Kolkata (Bengal) and eastern region. Local language fluency

Why should you apply?

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
• Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities to mingle and to learn.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success, you will be learning new things every day.

In this role you will be reporting to REGIONAL SALES MANAGER -EAST