Your role
Increase knowledge of automation through continuous support of local efforts in EE/MEA region.
Building competences in the countries and design automation logistics solutions for end customers with aim to increase KION brands footprint in automation in EE/MEA region.
We offer:
- Career development in the conditions of a recognized, globally successful company
- Comprehensive training in your field of duties
- Possibility to travel around the region and beyond
- Performance-based competitive salary
- Attractive benefit program including bonuses, flexible working hours, home office, 5 weeks of vacation, a company car for private use, other benefits depending on country of employment
Tasks and Qualifications:
Your responsibilities
- Supporting Network Partners and End Customers in solution design, focusing on complex multi-dimensional projects
- Assuring adequate access of Network Partners to relevant solution information in a course of webinars, trainings and workshops
- Tailoring solutions to current market situation and organizational structure in dedicated countries
- Contacting potential technology suppliers, receiving offers, assessing their capabilities; maintaining a supplier list within the region
- Working as a communication bridge between countries, headquarters and technological partners
- Mentoring and development of the sales network, including driving them into competence absorption
- Assessing project complexity, budgeting and delivering best fitting logistics automation solution
- Development of customer specific and application specific logistic concepts to set up a solution based on stationary automation equipment or automated guided vehicles (AGV)
- Analysis and planning of the end-to-end processes in consideration of complex solution requirements (Product and service requests)
- Evaluation and technical qualification of final offers to create a solid base in further project realization
Essential qualities and skills
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Engineering, Logistics or similar
- Proven professional experience in handling intralogistics projects
- Ability to navigate within international structures and communicate with various stakeholders
- Experience with intralogistics automation technology such as conveyors, shuttles, stacker cranes, rail system etc. is a must
- Experience with automated transport vehicles (AGVs or AMRs) is an advantage
- Very good English skills required; German or any other East or South-East European language beneficial
- Driving licence B
- Proficiency with MS Office applications and experience with AutoCad or similar
- Willingness to travel internationally (up to 50% of time)
- International mindset, ability to be persuasive and assertive, basic presentation skills
- Proactive, structured and solution-oriented personality
- Sales & consultancy approach with patience for realization
- Analytical thinking supporting identification of opportunities and risks
