Global Key Account Manager Process Industries (m/f/d) (Esslingen, DE, 73734)

Festo
Festo

Sales & Business Development

Esslingen, Germany

Posted on Aug 10, 2026

Your job:

  • Maximize direct and indirect sales as well as market share for the assigned strategic customers in the Gas Processing segment
  • Build, develop, and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers
  • Acquire strategic and sustainable business opportunities with assigned customers
  • Develop and implement global customer strategies and account plans for the assigned accounts
  • Ensure the achievement of quantitative and qualitative targets
  • Support the development of solution concepts and customer-specific offerings regarding products and applications
  • Lead international contract and price negotiations
  • Ensure regular collaboration with the buying centers of assigned customers, Festo subsidiaries, and various headquarters functions
  • Provide functional leadership to the customer team and ensure joint success
  • Ensure overall profitability of the assigned customers

Your qualification:

  • Successfully completed degree in engineering, electrical engineering, automation, process engineering, industrial engineering, or a comparable qualification
  • Several years of professional experience in the chemical industry, ideally related to gas processing
  • Strong industry, product, and application knowledge in automation for process industries, particularly in gas processing (e.g., equipment for the production, purification, and distribution of hydrogen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide)
  • Several years of international sales experience with responsibility for customer acquisition, customer development, and contract negotiations is desirable
  • Experience in project acquisition and revenue responsibility is an advantage
  • Functional leadership experience is a plus
  • Business-fluent English skills; additional foreign languages are an advantage
  • Strong consulting orientation, persuasive communication skills, entrepreneurial mindset, and experience in intercultural collaboration
  • High willingness to travel

Part of the selection process is an assessment centre.

Contact person: Sabrina Marx, +49(711)347-47385