Sales Engineer – Construction
As Sales Engineer – Construction, you will translate customer requirements and projects in the Netherlands and Belgium into technically sound and commercially viable solutions. Working closely with the Account Manager, you will help turn opportunities into successful projects.
Your opportunity at Merford
Do you enjoy translating technical challenges into smart, feasible and commercially attractive solutions? Would you like to work with customers and colleagues to move projects forward, combining technical expertise with commercial awareness? Then this could be the opportunity for you.
As Sales Engineer – Construction at Merford Acoustic Materials, you will play a key technical and commercial role in our construction projects in the Netherlands and Belgium. You will work closely with our Account Managers. While they focus on customer relationships, market development and commercial opportunities, you will translate those opportunities into the right technical solution and a strong proposal.
You will explore the requirements behind each project, analyse specifications, construction drawings and technical information, and determine where our acoustic solutions can add value. You will advise customers and colleagues on the available options, develop solutions and quotations, and ensure that the technical requirements, price and customer needs are properly aligned.
You will also have regular contact with customers, consultants, contractors and other stakeholders in both the Netherlands and Belgium. This is certainly not a role in which you will spend all your time working on enquiries behind a desk. You will ask the right questions, contribute ideas, provide advice and help move projects forward from both a technical and commercial perspective.
Together with our other Sales Engineers and Account Managers, you will form a strong commercial and technical team. The Account Managers take the commercial lead and develop customers and projects, while you are responsible for the technical content and development of the solution. Drawing on your respective expertise, you will work towards the same goal: converting opportunities into successful projects and sustainable growth for Merford.
This role offers an attractive combination of engineering, commercial responsibility, customer contact and project-based work, with plenty of scope to further develop your knowledge of acoustics and our market.
What you bring to the team
We are looking for someone who enjoys combining technical expertise with commercial awareness. You like getting to grips with technical challenges without losing sight of the customer or the commercial interests involved. You do not simply wait for all the information to be provided. You ask questions, explore possibilities and take the initiative to move a project forward.
You do not need to be an acoustic specialist when you join us. We can teach you that. What matters more is that you have strong technical insight, can quickly understand complex information and enjoy working with customers and colleagues to find the best solution.
You recognise yourself in the following:
- You hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in a technical subject such as Construction Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
- You have at least five years of relevant experience in a technical, construction-related or project-based environment, and can analyse drawings, specifications and other project information and translate them into an appropriate solution.
- You combine technical insight with commercial awareness. You consider not only what is technically possible, but also what the customer needs and where opportunities lie.
- You have strong communication skills and enjoy direct contact with customers, consultants, contractors and other stakeholders.
- You work accurately and methodically, take ownership of your projects and show initiative in moving enquiries and projects forward.
- You enjoy working collaboratively and, in particular, forming a strong technical and commercial partnership with the Account Manager to develop customers and projects in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- You have a good command of Dutch. As you will also work with the Belgian market, knowledge of French would be a strong advantage. Knowledge of acoustics would be beneficial, but is not essential.
In short, we are looking for a technically skilled and commercially minded Sales Engineer who takes ownership of the solution and works with the Account Managers to convert opportunities into successful projects.
What’s in it for you
Merford is a professional family-owned business and a knowledge-led organisation in which people come first. With nearly 200 colleagues, we know each other personally and stay closely connected. We want to do our work exceptionally well, and we do it together. Job satisfaction, health and sustainability are important to us.
We also offer:
- A varied position and autonomous role in which your contribution will be visible and valued.
- A modern workplace in Gorinchem.
- A company laptop.
- Active coaching from your manager.
- Training and professional development opportunities.
- A competitive salary based on your knowledge and experience, up to €5,292 gross per month based on a full-time, 40-hour working week.
- 25 days of annual leave and 13 additional ADV leave days based on full-time employment.
- A modern benefits package, including a good pension scheme and an annual profit-sharing scheme.
- Free lunch at work.
- A travel allowance if you live more than 10 kilometres from the office.
Think we sound like a match?
