AV
AV
AV is a recruitment and professional development specialist serving the commercial sector since 2000. The company helps organizations identify, assess, and develop commercial professionals, with a focus on aligning individual potential with team performance and business goals. Its services include executive search, candidate assessments, and recruitment support for a range of commercial positions.

Business Development Manager – Katwijk, Hybrid

Senior account manager for SAG Netherlands, a manufacturer of aluminium and steel fuel tanks and bespoke technical solutions. Grow existing accounts, develop new business, and lead technical B2B sales processes.

Description

  • Expand existing customer relationships and unlock additional commercial opportunities within key accounts
  • Win new customers, generate new business, and enter new markets
  • Assess technical customer needs and convert them into suitable solutions
  • Manage prospecting, customer visits, quotation follow-up, and negotiations
  • Oversee the full sales cycle, from proposals and negotiations through to closing
  • Build and actively manage a high-quality sales pipeline in the CRM
  • Work closely with engineering, planning, work preparation, and production teams
  • Serve customers from Katwijk while combining office-based work with customer visits
  • Learn the company’s products, processes, and production team during the first week

Requirements

  • Higher professional education level, preferably in a technical or commercial discipline
  • At least six years of experience in sales or account management
  • B2B sales experience, ideally in a technical, industrial, or manufacturing environment
  • Experience with prospecting, relationship management, consultative selling, and CRM systems
  • Strong command of Dutch and English
  • Ability to understand technical customer needs and translate them into suitable solutions
  • Organized approach with strong control of the sales pipeline
  • Understanding of commercial processes in manufacturing, OEM, or a comparable technical B2B environment

Benefits

  • Attractive bonus scheme
  • 27 vacation days plus 13 additional reduction-of-working-hours days
  • Pension plan in line with the Metalektro collective agreement
  • Company car
  • Laptop and phone
  • Scope to take entrepreneurial ownership within the role
  • Short communication lines and close collaboration with technical, engineering, and production teams

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