Sales Manager_Benelux

Our Culture

At Fluence, our culture is the foundation that drives our ambitious growth strategy and fuels our mission to transform the future of energy. Our core cultural pillars empower us to innovate, collaborate, and lead with purpose, ensuring we continue to deliver unparalleled value to our customers and the world.

Unleash Voices

We believe every voice matters. We encourage openness, active listening, and decisive action to create a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our success. We foster an environment where diverse perspectives are heard and valued, driving innovation and progress.

Customer Fluent

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to delivering exceptional value that exceeds expectations by understanding our customers' needs and adapting swiftly to meet them. Our deep focus on customer satisfaction drives us to continuously improve and innovate.

Infinite Impact

We are committed to creating the impossible. We push boundaries to deliver sustainable, game-changing solutions that shape a brighter, more energy-efficient future for all. Our team is passionate about making a lasting impact that will resonate for generations to come.

All In

We are all in for growth. Our teams are relentlessly focused on identifying and seizing opportunities that propel us forward. We embrace an ownership mindset, pushing ourselves and each other to accelerate progress and create lasting success.

Tasks:

- Identification of customers, applications, and segments that are an attractive fit for Fluence’s energy storage products, services and digital applications. Strive to understand the customer’s needs inside and out.

- Building and maintaining management level relationships with key customers and industry stakeholders (with regional travel as required). Assessing and prioritizing sales opportunities using strategic selling criteria.

- Provide technical and commercial support during sales process – become a subject matter expert across all elements of Fluence’s technology, able to answer a range of technical queries on our hardware, software, and services offerings.

- Lead and collaborate with commercial project management, legal and sales engineering teams (“Deal Team”) to develop compelling offers for key customers.

- Lead the negotiation and closing of transactions for energy storage products and services with the support of a Deal Team, and provide oversight and mentorship of more junior deal team members.

- Deliver on quarterly and annual sales order intake and margin targets established in coordination with the Sales Director. Individual accountability for meeting sales team budget and key KPIs’. Support data driven decision making via Salesforce and other reporting/CRM tools including tracking customer interactions and opportunity pipeline management.

- Gathering and dissemination of competitive intelligence and bid feedback to improve Fluence offerings

- Maintenance, development and improvement of tools to support sales efforts and improve sales team efficiency

- Collaboration with market applications and growth team to understand policy, regulatory and market opportunities that strengthen or weaken the business case

- Representation of Fluence at industry conferences and other events

Skill Requirements

- Master’s degree in a relevant subject (environmental studies, business, economics, engineering, sciences, computer science, mathematics, statistics, etc.) or equivalent demonstration through additional work experience

- Minimum 5 years of sales, technical or commercial experience in the power generation or a related industry (directly in energy storage would be a plus)

- Demonstrated track record in building up sales pipelines successfully and driving contracts to efficient close as a deal leader

- Direct experience on battery-based energy storage systems and contracting from a technical and commercial perspective

- Strong management level stakeholder relationships and network within the regional energy storage sector, including developers, IPPs and local EPCs

- Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). Experience with Salesforce, Klue, RFPio, PowerBI a plus.

- Superior verbal and written communication skills and high attention to detail

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a remote team environment

- Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen

- Fluent English, fluency in Dutch is a plus.

- Ability to seek and give constructive feedback and advice.

Fluence IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.