Role Summary:
You are a technical specialist with great presentation and negotiation skills and sensitive to recognize commercial opportunities. As an Application Engineer - Valves you will contribute to sharpening the Flowserve proposition as both OEM and preferred partner for service and repair work.
You specialize in valves and pneumatic/electric actuators and will team up with our Application Engineering team at our Flow Control Division in Roosendaal.
We expect you to build and maintain an excellent work relationship with our outside sales team. You build technically and commercially sound offers and you are well equipped with technical or commercial follow-up questions that a customer or colleague might have. We expect you to provide superior service to make it easy for our customer to do business with Flowserve. Your work location can either be Roosendaal, Antwerp or even Rotterdam and your focus will be the Belgium and Dutch market.
Your role
- Partner with your designated Sales Engineer(s) and Technical Engineers.
- Increase business, raise customer satisfaction and improve quote-to-order ratio.
- Provide in-depth technical knowledge/advise on valves and actuator applications to both internal and external clients.
- Direct question on commercial/legal topics regarding terms of contracts, lead times, and documentation requirements to the right people.
- Incidental travel to develop business by making presentations and assist with training.
- Bring additional enthusiasm and energy into the team.
Your profile
You leverage your individual competences in each specific situation to produce a steady volume of technically and commercially sound offers. Dealing with a variety of people is one of your qualities and you feel little effect of external negative influences that you might encounter during your workday. Your focus always is the same, growing sustainable business. Furthermore, you have:
- At least Technical degree on MBO-Level
- Ideally 2 years of professional experience in similar position
- Excellent command of the English, Dutch language is mandatory
- Analytical, technical and highly accurate while having the urge to move fast and get results.
- Proven track record in technical (inside) sales, at least 8 years of experience
Preferred experience/skills:
- Expertise on applications of (control) valves in the oil & gas, energy, water and/or chemical industry
- Technical knowledge of fluids, corrosion, erosion, materials, valve specifications, engineering drawings
- French is a big plus with a focus on the Belgium market
What we can offer you
- On top of your competitive salary you will receive 8% holiday allowance and a 5% end-of-year bonus.
- Based on a full time employment you will have 40 days off (27+13 ADV)
- The perfect place to develop yourself
- An employer who takes care of your safety and your career. Among others through our annual sustainable employability program.
- Choose from various insurance packages with employer contribution.