Product Sales Representative - Saab Barracuda

at  Saab Inc

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.
Your role
In this role you will be responsible for marketing and sales of the Saab Barracuda portfolio towards both national and/or international customers. You will play an important role supporting the business unit’s growth and support changing the mindset of many Armed Forces regarding the use of camouflage and deception.

Tasks will include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying business opportunities with both new and existing customers
• Arrange and conduct meetings with potential customers
• Develop and build long-term business relationships
• Understand customer requirements and build presentations that addresses business needs
• Knowledgeable of the sales process and ability to negotiate and close business deals
• Participate in exhibitions and customer events
• Actively contribute to continuous business improvement and give your input to strategic directions.

The job requires a fair amount of travel, mainly outside Sweden. These travels can both be related to specific customer interactions as well as general marketing events such as exhibitions and tradeshows.
Your profile
As a candidate you should have an outgoing personality with good communication skills, tenacity and high drive.
You are committed to delivering high quality and meeting deadlines in a fast moving international environment where decisions are followed by prompt action.
You love business and to build long-term business relationships. You are a performance driven person that is motivated by exceeding customer expectations and with an exceptional drive to achieve sales targets.
You are ambitious, curious, energetic and continuously seek to contribute with new ideas and improvements in your day-to-day work. You are comfortable working under your own initiative as well as part of a business team.
We believe that an open environment, where everyone’s opinions and ideas are welcome, is a prerequisite for our future development. It is important to us that you have an accepting attitude towards people regardless of whom you meet. Respect and dignity should be keywords to you at all times.

Required skills

• Degree in marketing, engineering or economics, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Swedish - verbal and written.
• Team player, always looking for the best solutions for your customers, you have an open mind and a strong work ethic. Cooperating and sharing information in a team is your natural preference for high performance.
• Service-minded, flexible and able to work under pressure within tight deadlines and able to maintain a high quality.

Desired skills

• Experience from working with marketing and sales or procurement

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What you will be part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 22,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.
We look forward to your application

• Identifying business opportunities with both new and existing customers
• Arrange and conduct meetings with potential customers
• Develop and build long-term business relationships
• Understand customer requirements and build presentations that addresses business needs
• Knowledgeable of the sales process and ability to negotiate and close business deals
• Participate in exhibitions and customer events
• Actively contribute to continuous business improvement and give your input to strategic directions