Sales and Application Engineer Industrial, Electromobility

Our employees describe Volvo Penta as a great place to work, built upon respect and commitment. We encourage people to take individual responsibility and offer exciting assignments in a highly innovative environment.


We strongly believe that high performance comes from having fun at work, and the courage to think outside the box. Come and join us. We are both world leading and pioneers in our field.
The Volvo Penta vision is to be the world leader in sustainable power solutions. We have a history of innovation and enjoy strong market positions based on our current product and service offer. We are now in the starting blocks of developing next generation products and solutions that will be connected, electrified and automated.


We are now looking for someone to join our Sales Engineering Industrial team to be part of our exiting journey ahead within the ramp up of electro mobility within Volvo Penta.


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Key responsibilities:


Would you like to play a key role for customer success and like challenges? Then we have a great opportunity for you to work with both sales and engineering within electromobility.


Sales Engineering Industrial’s role is to act as an application expert for Volvo Penta Industrial products supporting our Sales organizations as well as our customers, in this position for electromobility. You also have the responsibility to secure the availability and knowledge of efficient technical sales support and installation documentation to Volvo Penta Sales representatives worldwide.


As a Sales and Application Engineer in our team you will also act as the voice of our customers for the development of Volvo Penta’s industrial products. By conveying customer demands into Product Management Industrial and the Product Development organizations we secure fulfilment of the market requirements. It is important to understand the application of Volvo Penta Industrial products and our customers’ technical requirements on our scope of supply. The application engineer provides additional value to the OEMs by understanding the end-user and their requirements.


Who are you?


What’s most important is that you have an open and positive attitude. You are truly a team player, always with our customers and your team in focus. Your ability to motivate and communicate with people in English, both in speech and writing is essential.


You need to have a system approach and be able to balance theoretical knowledge with a practical knowhow. You also need to be able to have both our customers and our internal functions glasses on, because they can for sure see different things. Preferable you have prior experience from electromobility with a strong customer oriented mindset to find successful solutions for our customers.


Team player and networking skills: The job requires close contact with regional application resources and close collaboration with the sales organization, product planning, and product development as well as with colleagues in the Volvo group companies.


Self-driven and highly motivated: The role is for a skilled individual who wants to play a key role in our next electromobility installation.


We can’t promise you an effortless job, but what we can promise you are some really skilled colleagues and some truly exciting challenges. You will work in a global environment that provides opportunities for you to develop both on a professional and personal level. We at Volvo Penta want you to prosper and be happy. Because when you succeed, we succeed. Together we drive prosperity.


Curious, and have some questions? Call us!


Come join us for a cup of coffee and we will gladly give you more information about the role and how we can help each other on our future journey! Contact Rickard Nilsson, Director Sales Engineering Industrial Telephone: +46-73-902 77 85


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