Vacancy
International SalesAccount Manager
You do not wait for the phone to ring. You make deals happen. I-Padel is growing fast and our ambitions do not stop at the Dutch border. As a manufacturer we deliver complete projects ourselves, but we also supply our padel courts directly to professional partners who handle the installation in their own country. We are going to expand that international business considerably. That is why we are looking for an International Sales Account Manager who builds new commercial relationships worldwide.
- Full-time, Urk and partly working from home
- € 3,900 to € 5,500 gross per month
- Creating new markets, customers and opportunities
What will you do?
From first contact to lasting partnership
This is not a role in which you inherit an existing customer portfolio that you only have to maintain. You start largely from scratch and are free to create new markets, customers and opportunities yourself. You look for foreign padel court builders, distributors and dealers who want to sell and install our courts in their own market. Your duties include:
- Actively searching for foreign padel court builders, distributors and dealers
- Approaching potential customers yourself by phone, e-mail, LinkedIn and other channels
- Researching new countries and markets and spotting commercial opportunities
- Introducing I-Padel to potential international partners
- Explaining why it is attractive to buy directly from us as the manufacturer
- Qualifying new leads and following them up commercially
- Independently drawing up and sending quotations
- Negotiating prices, terms and partnerships
- Finding structural dealers and distributors and, where attractive, agreeing on a sales territory
- Keeping in touch with the customer throughout the entire sales and delivery process
- Working with planning, production and colleagues so that sold courts are delivered well and on time
- Coming up with new ideas yourself to further expand our international sales
The ultimate goal is clear: selling more I-Padel courts all over the world. You can read what such a partnership looks like at becoming a distribution partner.
What do we sell?
A product from our own factory
We produce our padel courts ourselves. That gives us short lines of communication, lets us act quickly and makes us commercially attractive to parties who carry out padel projects themselves. A foreign partner buys a complete padel court from us and then handles the installation and further realisation themselves.
You do not need to be a padel court specialist when you start. We will teach you the technical knowledge about our structures, artificial turf, lighting and other components. Have a look at our padel courts and the structure in advance.
- Own production
- Short lines and quick decisions
- Sharp prices
- Hot-dip galvanised steel structures
- Up to 15 years of warranty on the steel structure
- Technical and commercial support for partners
Who are we looking for?
Above all someone with commercial drive
You enjoy walking into a place where no relationship exists yet. You dare to pick up the phone, do not let yourself be brushed off easily and understand that sometimes you have to get in touch several times before an opportunity arises. You are not someone who prefers to wait for an enquiry to land in your inbox.
- Sales experienceYou already have experience in sales or another commercial role. A commercial education is a nice bonus, but not decisive.
- LanguagesExcellent Dutch, spoken and written, and commercially excellent English. German is a plus; French or Italian is also interesting.
- Enterprising and boldYou work independently and enterprisingly, dare to be commercially bold and are results-driven.
- Not afraid of cold callingYou are persistent without becoming annoying.
- Spots opportunitiesYou spot opportunities yourself and then go after them.
- Building relationshipsYou are good at building and maintaining relationships. An affinity with padel or sport is a nice bonus, but not a requirement.
What do we offer?
The space to build something yourself
You join a young organisation that is growing fast and where there is still plenty of room to build something yourself. You do not get a rigidly defined international sales territory in which everything is already arranged for you. Quite the opposite: together with us, you put international sales further on the map. We offer:
- A salary between € 3,900 and € 5,500 gross per month, depending on knowledge and experience
- A full-time commercial position with a lot of freedom and responsibility
- Flexible start and finish times
- The option to work partly from home
- Company laptop and phone
- A lot of freedom to discover new markets and sales opportunities
- Direct contact with production, planning and management
- A product you can actually show and with which you can commercially take on the world
- Plenty of room for your own initiative
- Opportunities for advancement as I-Padel and our international sales continue to grow
Do you spot an interesting padel builder in France? Then you find out who is in charge and get in touch. Opportunities for a distributor in Scandinavia? Then you get to work on it. A market where we are hardly active yet? Then we want you to investigate how we can get in. You can read more about the company at careers at I-Padel.
- € 3,900 to 5,500gross per month
- Full-timeUrk and partly working from home
- 15years of warranty on the steel structure
