Engineer - Modernization Sales
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026. KONE scores B on the Alion truth index.
Did you know KONE moves over one billion people every day? In 2025, we had annual net sales of EUR 11.2 billion. We employ over 60,000 driven professionals in close to 70 countries worldwide joined together by a shared vision. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, it is our mission to improve the flow of urban life.
Why this role?
KONE is embarking upon an exciting growth phase and this represents an opportunity for you to join our Coimbatore team, as an Engineer - Modernization Sales
What will you be doing?
Customer relationship management
- Proactively develops and creates customer relationships in his/her area of responsibility
- Is accountable for developing KONE position in his/her customer base or market area
- Creates and communicates leads and sales opportunities for entire KONE sales team (e.g. cross-selling)
- Ensures customer satisfaction and solving complaints with the rest of the KONE team
- Documents the customer and contact information, maintains customer data
- Promotes asset management plans with customers to support budgeting
Sell
- Proactively generates opportunities from existing customer base
- Collaborates with maintenance team for leads (maintenance technicians)
- Is accountable for leads, opportunities, orders and contracts to meet the sales budget and pricing targets. Follows up leads from campaigns
- Is accountable for finding customer needs and that KONE’s solution matches with the needs
- Is responsible for pricing using the approved tendering tools, and for optimizing prices and discounts within his/her authority
- Validates that the contents of the contract are in line with the negotiation process outcome
- Maintains full information of opportunities, tasks and visits, keeps sales funnel data up-to-date
- Responsible for timely and accurate reporting in CRM
- Responsible for gathering relevant information about market and competitors from the field
- Supports the finance function in money collection.
- Is responsible for the account over the entire sell process
- Is accountable for ensuring decision to tender (Gate 2) by Gate approver (for example based on discount authorities)
- Is accountable for the project/order until Order Booking
- Drives execution of her/his individual sales plan
What do we offer?
- Career progression opportunities within a global organization.
- Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work.
- Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
At KONE, we believe in fair and competitive pay that recognizes performance and supports employee engagement. Our approach covers a comprehensive total rewards package, including both financial and non-financial benefits. We are committed to fostering a culture of fairness, respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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