Sales Director (DACH region)

Virta is looking for a highly motivated and competitive sales person to secure growth in Europe and especially in the DACH market. You will be linked and supported by the HQ (Finland) and DACH office (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) located in Germany.

This is a brilliant position in an innovative forerunner company in the booming EV charging and energy management sector, contributing to the disruption of the energy industry towards a cleaner future. You have a chance to be part of a talented team in a business area that will affect the future.

What you’ll love about us

• Virta is contributing to the disruption of the energy industry towards a cleaner future and you have a chance to become a top talent in this business area
• A skilled and international team of experts as your colleagues
• Company’s support in a healthy lifestyle and the wellbeing of the employees

Who we are?

Virta Ltd. (Liikennevirta Oy) enables the mainstreaming of electric vehicles by developing smart electric vehicle charging services and energy management. We are Europe’s second-biggest EV charging platform, operational globally in 30 countries. Besides the Helsinki HQ, Virta has offices in Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Sweden.

We at Virta have an innovative startup company mentality, an excellent working environment, and colleagues who are the world’s top experts. We value helping each other to grow and to be successful. Together we find the most effective ways of getting things done with high quality and we share the passion to work towards a sustainable future.

Responsibilities

Strive to understand the customer's needs and provide knowledge and awareness to make a business from electric vehicle charging, clean energy, and energy trading services with comprehensive SaaS-base solutions

Maintain existing customer relationships and be able to expand the company’s customer base
Ensure that the ambitious sales targets are met with the selected energy customers segment

Requirements:

• Solid contact network in the European energy sector, that will help you to get access to the management level in major energy and renewable companies
• A proven track record of selling solutions and projects
• Experience in EV Charging and energy management/trading a definite plus
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships in the top management level to build and close new deals
• Capability to understand technical solutions and build commercial business reasoning to support decision making
• Ability to negotiate and argue based on the value
• You are result driven self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to convince and be trust
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English. Additional language skills are an advantage in French, Spanish, Swedish or Italian
• Ability to work independently and travel internationally
• Your professional activity in online and social media is appreciated

The main working language at Virta is English. Virta’s employees are a group of international, motivated, and sustainability-minded doers.

Please, note that the position will be filled as soon as a suitable person is found.

If you feel this would be something for you, please apply via the button below.

Join us and be part of the growth and fun!