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Siemens Smart Infrastructure connects buildings and cities to make them smarter and more energy efficient. We help our customers to thrive, communities to progress and support sustainable development to protect our planet for the next generation. Working with our global customers and partners, we help to create intelligent solutions and perfect places in the full range of buildings where we live, work and relax.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has its global headquarters in Switzerland. Region Europe, with around 7’400 colleagues, is responsible for the solution and service business and is market leader in Europe.

Our Sales Excellence team located in Zurich guides our Sales Experts in the countries towards competitive advantage and creating excellent customer experience by developing frameworks and strategic initiatives for efficient processes, applications and competences as well as enforcing standards via governance, support and knowledge sharing.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic colleague, who has a strong background in solution sales and knows from own experiences how sales performance and customer experience can be increased through development and continuous improvement of IT applications and enablers for Sales. You are taking the lead of guiding the digital transformation of the Sales Organizations in the European countries. You bring along experience in change management and establishing standards in a multi-national corporation as well as agile software development. In this role you will lead a small team of product / program managers of the Sales Applications / Tools. Join our team and help us creating environments that care.

Your new responsibilities

• Guiding the Digital Transition of the Solution Sales Organization in the assigned countries within Region Europe towards a target application landscape – considering Region Europe’s standards and local requirements


• Ensure Product Management for Sales Applications, providing insights to application and data optimization


• Definition and further development of the Sales Application Target Landscape, considering end-to-end processes and dataflow in close collaboration with IT


• Define and roll out improvement initiatives supporting Region Europe’s strategy and towards sustainable business impact


• Track implementation and drive adoption rate for applications, processes and use of insights (data)


• Support countries to implement change and improvement measures


• Governance for Sales Applications and related processes and data on Europe level


• Lead a distributed team of professionals

Your skills and experience

• Degree in a technical field, computer science or similar education


• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in a solutions sales position, preferable in the field of building management and in a multinational technology co-operation


• At least 5 years of experience in leading implementation and change management programs, with focus on internal IT/Software solutions within an industrial environment


• At least 3 years of experience in a functional leadership role, preferably within a sales or IT position


• An ability to work well in an interdisciplinary, agile and multi-cultural environment with multiple priorities


• Ability to collaborate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders on different levels


• Good understanding of customers/user behaviour and the ability to explain your area of expertise to non-experts from C-level to field community


• Strong presentation, negotiation and communication skills in English. German and an additional European language (e.g. French) would be a plus


• Knowledge of the European building market gives you an appropriate, sound background


• Travel activity 10 – 20%

Who and where we are

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