Sales Team Lead
Sales Team Lead
Requirements & Qualifications
Essential Requirements
- Fluent Dutch speaker with strong professional communication skills in both Dutch and English.
- Must reside within a commutable distance (approximately 25km) of the Utrecht area.
- Strong knowledge of the Dutch commercial landscape and customer market.
- Proven track record in sales, business development, or account management.
- Ability to build and maintain long-term customer relationships.
- Strong negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Self-motivated, results-driven, and capable of working independently.
- Willingness to travel throughout the Netherlands as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience within laboratory equipment, analytical instrumentation, scientific devices, or related technical industries.
- Experience working for a laboratory equipment manufacturer, scientific instrumentation company, or laboratory supply distributor.
- Established network within laboratory, industrial, research, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, environmental, or life sciences sectors.
- Demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding sales targets.
- Experience managing strategic accounts and complex sales cycles.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of consultative and solution-based selling approaches.
Key Competencies
- Commercially focused with a strong customer-first mindset.
- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
- Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Highly organised with strong time-management skills.
- Ability to identify opportunities and convert them into long-term business growth.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and target-driven environment.
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