job description:
- Serve customers seeking different skids primarily used in the energy sector.
- Designing and optimizing of skids mainly consisting pump & Valves.
- Evaluate, analyze, and implement complex technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Preparation of technical and commercial offers for skids according to customer specifications.
- Winning orders in international project business by optimizing skids and their components (technical and pricing).
- Take responsibility for the technical evaluation and selection of skid components with a focus on value.
- Independently review highly complex international offers received from vendors.
- Play a significant role in the success of projects.
- Negotiate contracts and prices with customers.
- Assist in defining and creating project-specific negotiation strategies.
- Collaborate intensively with the project team during the offer phase, both strategically and operationally.
- Support the contract manager during order processing.
- Conduct and support supplier and customer meetings and presentations, including internationally.
- Coordinate all project-specific sales and procurement activities.
- Evaluate and select suppliers.
- Ensure compliance with cost, deadlines, and quality requirements
Skills:
- University graduate (preferably Master or Dipl.-Ing.) with a focus on mechanical engineering or industrial engineering, or technician with extensive professional experience in plant engineering.
- Excellent product knowledge of complex plants and the interaction of their components (pumps, valves, instruments, etc.).
- Comprehensive application knowledge in the field of "conventional energy".
- Comprehensive knowledge of the evaluation, analysis, and implementation of complex technical specifications and customer requirements, as well as their impact.
- At least 5 years of professional experience in international project business
- High flexibility and resilience.
- High level of commitment (hands-on mentality) and initiative.
- Entrepreneurial, efficient, goal-oriented, and strategic thinking and acting.
- Team and integration skills.
- Independent and autonomous work.
- Strong technical and analytical understanding.
- Negotiating skills, persuasiveness, and assertiveness.
- Empathic team player with a confident demeanor.
- High degree of initiative and creative drive, as well as strong decision-making skills.
- Implementation strength and problem-solving skills.
- Intercultural competence and sensitivity.
- High willingness to communicate and cooperate.
- Willingness to proactively initiate and implement changes/improvements.
- IT skills: SAP, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat Professional.
- Business fluent in English, with proficiency in another foreign language being a plus.
- Willingness to travel.
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What We Do
ABOUT KSB
KSB is one of the world’s leading suppliers of pumps, valves and related systems.
KSB combines innovative technology and excellent service to provide intelligent solutions. This approach means that KSB employees are close to customers on all continents, providing them with pumps, valves and systems for almost all applications involving the transportation of liquids. A comprehensive range of services rounds off this customer-focused portfolio.
KSB has been growing continuously since it was founded in 1871. Today the Group has a presence on all continents with its own sales and marketing companies, manufacturing facilities and service operations. More than 15,600 employees generate annual consolidated sales revenue of two billion euros.
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With production plants, sales offices and agents in more than 100 countries, KSB is close to its customers throughout the world. Direct contact with local KSB specialists makes it easier for companies to implement their projects quickly, flexibly and at a high level of quality.
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FROM A SINGLE SOURCE: PUMPS AND VALVES, SERVICES AND SYSTEMS:
• Pumps and valves for industrial applications
• Comprehensive KSB services and original spare parts
• Pumps, valves and systems for building services
• Automation and drive solutions
• Pumps, valves and systems for renewable energy applications
• Slurry pumps for mining, suction dredgers and the oil sand industry
• Pumps, valves and systems for water applications
• Pumps, valves and systems for waste water applications
• Pumps, valves and systems for energy applications