Machinery Export Sales Manager Jobs

Technical Sales Board currently lists 7 open positions for Export Sales Manager professionals in Machinery, posted by 6 employers. 0% of these roles are field-based with regular customer visits, 14% are hybrid, 71% on-site and 14% fully remote. 6 of these positions are hunter roles with a clear focus on winning new business.

Technical Sales Board lists technical and industrial sales jobs only – no retail, no call centre, no software subscriptions. Every ad is classified by role, industry, country and city, by sales style from hunter to key account, by territory, travel share and required languages, and ads that have expired disappear the same day. What you see here is what is open right now.

Export sales managers develop foreign markets, mostly through distributors and agents, and spend a large share of their time travelling. Languages decide which territory is possible.

Export sales managers open and develop markets outside the home country. They find and manage importers and agents, negotiate contracts across legal systems and currencies, handle documentation and payment terms and spend a good part of the year travelling. Languages count as much as technical knowledge here, and employers prize candidates who have built a distributor network from a blank sheet.

Machinery and plant engineering is the home of capital equipment sales: machine tools, packaging and process lines, special-purpose machines. Sales cycles are long, deals are large and technical credibility decides.

Buyers of machines and plants decide in committees: production, engineering, purchasing and management all have a say, and a project can take a year from first contact to order. Sales people in this industry manage tenders and specifications, reference visits and factory acceptance tests. Typical employers are mid-sized, family-owned manufacturers with a strong export share – which is why language skills and willingness to travel appear in most ads.

Few of these ads state a salary. Industrial employers often discuss pay in the first interview – our salary benchmarks show what to expect: More on median, range and source: what a Export Sales Manager earns across Europe.

A company car is mentioned in 14% of the ads, variable pay in 0%.

Among the employers with the most open positions are Heye International, Hedelius, JCB Deutschland, Liebherr, and Pfaff Industrial. 86% of the ads come from manufacturers, 14% from distributors and trading companies and 0% from service providers.

The languages employers ask for most are English and German. 100% of the positions are aimed at experienced professionals, 0% carry leadership responsibility and 0% are open to career starters. Travel is part of the job: 71% of the roles involve a high share of travel, 14% a moderate one.

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