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Your primary focus will be serving B2B clients across major food sectors, including meat, fish, dairy, cheese, vegetable, and potato processing. This position requires extensive travel during the week to client sites, with only a few days spent in the office. You will be part of the Benelux team with full support from specialist and back office.\nResponsibilities / Tasks\nAs Senior Sales Engineer - Food Processing Solutions you,\nGenerate Sales: Drive revenue by selling industrial food processing machines and full production lines.\n\nManage Pipeline: Lead the complete B2B sales cycle from prospecting to closing high-value deals.\n\nBuild Relationships: Develop and maintain deep, trusted partnerships with key stakeholders and decision-makers.\n\nProvide Consultative Selling: Analyze client production needs to recommend tailored, high-efficiency application solutions.\n\nCollaborate Internally: Work with engineering, product, and service teams to design technical project proposals.\n\nNegotiate Contracts: Lead commercial and technical negotiations for complex, long-term capital equipment contracts.\n\nAnalyze Markets: Monitor food industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging regional market opportunities.\n\nRepresent the Brand: Showcase products and network at major international food technology trade shows.\n\nYour Profile / Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Food Technology, Business, or a related field.\n\nMinimum of 5-8 years in front-line industrial B2B sales within food processing.\n\nDeep understanding of meat, fish, dairy, cheese, vegetable, or potato processing technologies.\n\nVerifiable history of meeting or exceeding quotas for high-value machinery or CapEx sales.\n\nFlawless negotiation, presentation, and verbal communication skills.\n\nWillingness to travel extensively to client production facilities and factory sites.\n\nPossesses exceptional interpersonal skills to navigate complex, multi-layered client organizations.\n\nActs as a strategic partner to clients rather than a transactional salesperson.\n\nThrives in a competitive environment with long, demanding sales cycles.\n\nComfortably translates complex engineering concepts into clear, value-driven business benefits.\n\nDemonstrates a high level of autonomy, discipline, and strong regional traveling stamina.\n\nOur offer:\nA competitive salary package including company car, meal vouchers, group insurance, health insurance, etc.\n\n20 vacation days + 12 ADV days (40 hours working week)\n\nAn international work environment and opportunity to work with top pharma customers.\n\nGEA will invest in your personal development and support internal as well as external training programs for your further development.\n\nAbility to work in an environment where innovation and change is part of the everyday cultre.\n\nWhat happens once you have applied?\nYou will receive an e-mail when your application has been processed.\nOne of our Talent Acquisition Partners will assess whether the application meets the qualifications of the position. If your application has been successfully reviewed, you will be invited for an initial interview, either virtually or in person. We usually make a decision after the second/third interview. 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