The modernization sales farmer proactively generates leads with existing customers and together with maintenance farmer (if separated) decides the most optimal approach from the customer perspective. He/she sells all modernizations, full replacements, Advanced People Flow Solutions and other digital solutions. He/she supports customer budgeting with Asset Management Planning.
Responsibilities and key activities
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 / 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.
- Is accountable for the project/order until Order Booking.
- Drives execution of her/his individual sales plan.
Requirements
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in economics, engineering or other relevant fields.
- Minimum 5 years in solutions sales.
- Demonstrates service mindset.
- Is able to bring across customer needs, add value to customers’ businesses by offering solutions that meet their needs and is able to use value based pricing to guarantee healthy margins.
- Comfortable and excited about the opportunities that digital solutions bring.
- Experience from/ familiar with solution selling methodology and complex technology solutions.
- Good command of Thai and English.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in economics, engineering, or a relevant field
- Minimum five years of experience in solutions sales
- Service mindset
- Ability to understand customer needs, deliver business value, and apply value-based pricing
- Comfort with digital solutions
- Experience with solution-selling methodologies and complex technology solutions
- Good command of Thai and English
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
