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Pepperl+Fuchs Group

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1945

🚘 Automotive

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Automotive • Logistics • Healthcare

Pepperl+Fuchs Group is a global industrial automation company that designs and manufactures advanced electronic sensors, intrinsically safe devices, industrial communication interfaces, and hazardous-area equipment for manufacturing and process industries. Their product portfolio includes proximity, photoelectric, radar, LiDAR, ultrasonic, RFID and vision sensors, rotary encoders, HMI systems, remote I/O, surge protection, and explosion-protection solutions alongside software and IIoT/asset-tracking offerings. The company focuses on safety, functional/explosion protection (ATEX, SIL), and digitalization to support customers in sectors like automotive, energy, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and mining.

📋 Description

• Identification, assessment and development of prospective customers in emerging areas of factory and process automation (e.g., Industry 4.0, digitalization, sensors, machine vision, RFID, HMI & APL) • Strategic development of the customer base and acquisition of new customers • Full ownership of the sales process from lead generation through proposal submission to closing orders and projects • Independent planning and execution of customer visits, web meetings and campaigns within the assigned sales region • Evaluation of prospective customers with respect to revenue potential, market attractiveness and risk • Participation in regional and cluster meetings within the matrix organization • Continuous improvement of applied research, sales and reporting methods within the 'Mercuri Sales Platform' model • Trade fair appearances, particularly for innovative products and product launches • Work location: West Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW)

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in (industrial/) engineering or further training as a technician, with several years of sales experience in automation technology • Several years of professional experience in sales or product management • Strong technical understanding, especially of future topics in factory automation • Strong acquisition and negotiation skills • High affinity for digital trends, technologies, methods and tools • Demonstrated creativity and ability to work in a team • Business-fluent German; English skills are desirable