We are looking for an experienced Sales Team Manager
Are you successful in sales and leadership, with an ambition to manage our sales organization on a strategic level? You are not looking for a new job, you're looking for opportunity -- something extraordinary. Well, you've probably just found it!
What's the role?
Do you associate the role of Sales Team Manager only with sales goals and accounting for results? Certainly not in Øglænd System! Independence, partnership and prestige -- this is how you manage your Øglænd System sales.
Every day our colleagues deal with many interesting challenges. Here are some of them: how to transfer from Supplier to Partner approach? How to build long-term business relationships with customers? How to inspire customers and set the agenda for current and future market needs? How to be the first to bring innovations to the market? How to build and develop my team to be successful today and in the future? Do you have your own experience to share? Maybe Øglænd System is the right place to answer those questions!
Who is Øglænd System?
We provide innovative integrated modular support systems to the offshore and marine industry. Our mission is to make our customers competitive through our unique multidiscipline support solutions for EI&T, HVAC and Piping. Flexible and bolted cold work installations will contribute to improve HSE in our customers projects and simplify future modifications.
Our company employs 170 people in Kleppe, Norway. In 2017 we had a turnover of 498 million NOK. Øglænd System is a part of Øglænd Industries, which has subsidiaries in 14 countries and had a turnover of 1,2 billion NOK in 2017. The company is fully owned by Hilti Group, employing 28,000 people globally, with branches in over 120 countries.
What does the role involve?
For us, the sales department is the pulse of our customers. Sales Team Manager plays one of the key roles in Øglænd System. Our managers have full management confidence and independence in managing their own budget and making business and personal decisions. All this makes their relationship with Management Team and customers based on partnership and jointly undertaking new challenges. The Sales Team Manager's role is to define and implement sales plans in the assigned segments. It requires close partner cooperation with the clients, based on understanding their needs, gaining loyalty and seeking mutual benefits. The Sales Team Manager cooperates with other Øglænd System teams to take full advantage of sales potential and professionally serve key clients.
Your tasks will also include the management of a team of Sales Representatives, especially care for the development of their competences, as well as outlining the directions of activities. We recognize that the team's progress (in terms of achieving results and development of competences) is a direct reflection of the leader's work. We are looking for leaders, who inspire and develop others and bring outstanding results.
What do we offer?
If you want to gain competences that characterize the best entrepreneurs -- get to know us and see if this is what you are looking for. We will provide you with autonomy and freedom in choosing actions that will enable you to achieve above-average results. Show us what you can do!
Why should you apply?
The answer is simple -- we are a great company, great employer, with great people and great development possibilities! As soon as you cross the threshold of our door you will find out for yourself, and you will feel unique atmosphere. We are sure that in every Øglænd System organization you will feel the same -- we are a truly global team.
What you need is:
- Higher education (Master's/Bachelor's degree)
- Experience in team management
- Professional experience in sales & marketing
- Skills to build long-term relationships with O&G owners and operators, EPC contractors, engineering companies, and fabrication yards
- Technical understanding and confident with discussing and presenting technical solutions
- Ability to bring out the best in people
- Strategic and business thinking skills
- High analytical and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to develop in Øglænd System's international structures
- Readiness to travel all over Norway and abroad
- Fluency in English
- Professional working proficiency in Scandinavian language is considered an advantage
- Energy, courage and willingness to leave your comfort zone
This applies for the position:
Workplace: Øglænd System HQ at Øksnevad Kleppe, located in the south-west of Norway.
Application with resume, testimonials and references must be sent to: career@oglaend-system.com
Application deadline: 28 February 2019
Om bedriften
Oglaend System is a production company headquartered in Kleppe, Norway. We employ approximately 169 employees and in 2017 we had a turnover of 497,5 million NOK. Oglaend System is a part of Oglaend Industries, which has subsidiaries in 14 countries and had a turnover of 1,2 billion NOK in 2017. The company is fully owned by Hilti Group.
Oglaend System develops, produce and market multidisciplinary support systems, cable trays and cable ladders to the following segments: oil & gas, infrastructure, shipbuilding, wind energy and marine farming. All our products are marketed under the brand name "Øglænd System -- a group company of Hilti".