Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:Business Development: Drive profitable growth across Germany, Hungary and Slovenia by developing existing customers and identifying new business opportunities.
Key Accounts: Build and develop strategic customer relationships across technical, operational and commercial functions.
Technical Projects: Plan, coordinate and support product trials and customer projects on site, working closely with production teams and translating results into commercial opportunities.
Value Selling: Understand your customers' processes and requirements and develop solutions that deliver compelling technical and commercial value.
Market Development: Monitor customer needs, market trends and competitive developments and identify opportunities to further strengthen our market position.
Collaboration: Work closely with technical, product development and marketing teams as well as distributors and sales partners to develop the right solutions for our customers.
Technical Background: Degree or comparable qualification in engineering, science or another technical discipline, combined with the ability to quickly understand and analyze industrial processes.
Sales Experience: Several years of B2B technical sales, business development or key account management experience with value-added products or solutions in an industrial environment.
Sales Capability: Strong ability to identify customer needs, ask the right questions and combine technical understanding with commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
Customer Focus: Confidence working with stakeholders across production and technical functions as well as management and procurement, combined with strong listening and communication skills.
Personal Approach: Entrepreneurial, curious and self-motivated, with a high degree of independence and the ambition to continue developing professionally and personally.
Languages & Mobility: Fluent German and English combined with willingness to travel regularly throughout the sales territory.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Chem-Trend (Deutschland) GmbHSkills Required
- Degree or comparable qualification in engineering, science, or another technical discipline
- Several years of B2B technical sales, business development, or key account management experience with value-added products or solutions in an industrial environment
- Ability to understand and analyze industrial processes
- Strong customer-needs identification, consultative questioning, technical understanding, commercial acumen, and negotiation skills
- Experience working with production, technical, management, and procurement stakeholders
- Strong listening and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial, curious, self-motivated, and independent approach
- Fluent German and English
- Willingness to travel regularly throughout the sales territory
Freudenberg Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Freudenberg Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Freudenberg Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered strong at many U.S. sites, with low‑cost options, HSA contributions, and on‑site clinics in some locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is standard across U.S. entities, though exact match mechanics differ by business group and year.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often described as good, with some locations offering generous holiday schedules.
Freudenberg Group Insights
What We Do
Freudenberg is a global technology group that strengthens its customers and society long-term through forward-looking innovations. Together with its partners, customers and research institutions, the Freudenberg Group develops leading-edge technologies and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, technical textiles, filters, specialty chemicals, medical products and the most modern cleaning products. Strength of innovation, strong customer orientation, diversity, and team spirit are the cornerstones of the Group. The 170-year-old company holds strong to its core values: a commitment to excellence, reliability and pro-active, responsible action. In 2022, the Freudenberg Group employed more than 51,000 people in some 60 countries worldwide and generated sales of more than €11.7 billion. Learn more about us and visit our digital home at freudenberg.com and read the stories that make us Freudenberg. Visit and follow us at www.freudenberg.com https://www.instagram.com/freudenberg.group/ www.youtube.com/FreudenbergGroup www.facebook.com/freudenberggroup *** Netiquette *** We look forward to receiving your comments and posts. On behalf of all users, we ask for constructive contributions, mutual respect, courtesy and tolerance. All contributions will be checked and we reserve the right to delete contributions. This applies in particular to unlawful content, incorrect statements, advertising for third parties, spam or slander. In addition, we reserve the right to remove comments that are otherwise inappropriate or incorrect. Contributions made by external users do not necessarily reflect Freudenberg’s opinion. Please find our data protect information here: https://www.freudenberg.com/fileadmin/downloads/english/2020-11_DataProtectionInformation_SocialMedia_EN.pdf
