Spare Parts Sales Engineer
Kongsberg Maritime has an exciting opportunity for a Spare Parts Sales Engineer to join our existing Spare Parts team in Kristinehamn. You will be part of a service-focused technical sales team responsible for providing our customers worldwide, with offers and delivery of spare parts from our broad product portfolio.
As Spare Parts Sales Engineer, you are an integral member of the Global Customer Support division which is responsible for Kongsberg Maritimes services, upgrades and support in the aftermarket for customers worldwide. You will handle incoming customer orders and requests direct from customers or from Kongsberg sales offices worldwide. This is a solution-driven technical sales role. The work includes, providing service as well as proactive customer contact where you will identify customer needs and make technical recommendations. You will create quotes based on customer needs, provide recommendations and follow up on orders. This role works in close co-operation with our Spare Parts Planners, Sales and Technical Support teams, our supply chain, as well as operations and customers worldwide.
What we can offer
We offer an inspiring and safe work environment in a position with a wide range of challenging work tasks with the opportunities to make a real difference and develop on a personal level. We work with unique products at a world leading supplier of maritime solutions in an international environment where some travelling can be part of your work based on interest and project. We can offer flexible working hours and hybrid option to work partly remote based on your work tasks. This can vary depending on work requirements.
Qualifications and experience
To best fulfill the position needs and make this a perfect fit, you have a technical interest as engineering and technical understanding is so integrated into the daily work. It is advantageous if you can read technical drawings and documents although this is not a requirement.
To succeed in this role, you are a team player with a collaborative attitude and ability to communicate and work in a structured way. You enjoy building relationships to expand your network and are comfortable utilizing your resources and contacts to deliver the highest level of customer service, ultimately achieving set goals together with your team. You are systematic in your approach, planning and setting clear priorities for your work. You always remain focused on customer needs, which in turn, allows you to present and sell impactful and beneficial recommendations successfully to your customers.
Regular communication with both international customers and colleagues is a big part of this role, therefore a high level of both oral and written English is necessary. Fluency in additional languages is advantageous.
A bachelor’s degree in engineering (or relevant field) is desirable.
Kongsberg works with customers from both the commercial and naval market segments.
As our Spare Parts Sales Engineers work with classified materials, security clearance and export control are both required for this position and questions related to citizenship will be part of the selection process.
Last day to apply: 2024-06-30
Work location
Kristinehamn
Point of contact
Victor Romestad, Spare Parts Team Manager
Georgina Fielding, HR Specialist
Kongsberg Maritime is a technology pioneer, enabling a more sustainable future for our oceans. Our zero-emission integrated technologies advance the maritime industry and solve our customers' toughest problems. With unmatched competence, domain knowledge, innovation, and market reach, we are the trusted maritime partner. Headquartered in Kongsberg, Norway, the company has manufacturing, sales and service facilities in 35 countries.
Kongsberg Maritime, Kristinehamn consists of 310 engaged people working with sales, research, development, construction, service, training and assembly of market leading marine solutions. Our Hydrodynamic Research Centre provides world leading CFD and Testing capabilities in support for our Product centres and customers.
Our Global Customer Support division is responsible for Kongsberg Maritimes services, upgrades and support in the aftermarket. Our 2300 employees are present in 35 different countries around the world. During the operational lifetime of more than 30,000 installations, we ensure cost-efficient delivery of services, upgrades and spare parts in order to secure availability and predictability to our customers.
At Kongsberg, we believe in tackling challenging problems and delivering extreme performance for extreme conditions. We do that through excellent products and services developed for delivering the greatest benefits to our customers.
Protecting People & Planet.