Certified as a Top Employer for UAE, Qatar, KSA, and Oman; KONE is dedicated to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent people practices.
We are committed to fostering a great work culture and inspiring the highest standards of quality and efficiency from the team putting our people first and creating a workplace that nurtures collaboration, diversity, growth, and well-being.
KONE Middle East & Africa (KMEA) is embarking upon an exciting growth phase through a direct presence in 12 countries and more than 60 regional distributor markets. Modernization Sales are considered a strategic priority for our Business to complement our growth plans.
We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Sales Engineer for our Modernization business to be based in our Dubai, UAE office. In this role, you will lead and develop mutually beneficial relationships between KONE and customers that are strategic or nationally/locally important. You will proactively generate opportunities from outside the current customer base identify solutions and develop processes that add value to our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to join a team of professionals who thrive to drive offering and sales development strategies and share best practices. If you feel you have what it takes and can add significant value to this role and department then apply for this exciting opportunity!
What will you do?
Proactively hunt for new opportunities, develop and create customer relationships
Ensure customer satisfaction and solve complaints with the rest of the KONE team
Document and maintain the customer and contact information
Accountable for leads, opportunities, orders, and contracts to meet the sales budget and pricing targets including proactively generating opportunities from outside the current customer base
Accountable for finding customer needs and KONE’s solution matching those needs
Responsible for pricing using the approved tendering tools
Maintain full information of opportunities, tasks, and visits, while keeping CRM up to date
Are you the one?
Bachelor's Degree in any related field
Minimum 5 years of experience in Modernization Sales experience
Highly motivated, goal-oriented, diligent, organized self-starter with an orientation towards a high level of customer service
Ability to interpret and analyze customer needs
Passion for sales, with a proven track record and a strong customer focus
Excellent English communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
UAE experience is a must
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.
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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.
