Sales Manager

Fortum Recycling&Waste provides recycling and material efficiency services, environmental management and hazardous waste treatment in the Nordics.

Fortum Battery Recycling is providing recycling services and recycled products to lithium Ion Battery industry. We offer a sustainable, transparent, low CO2 and efficient way on recycling the Batteries powering the change to electric mobility. We are an agile business line inside Fortum looking for talentet members to our team.

About the role

The battery recycling business is a growth business, and this is your opportunity to leave your own footprint to the way we ensure that electric mobility is even greener in the future. 

As a Sales Manager your main objective is to build up a customer network and support current customers for solving their needs in field of lithium battery recycling services. You aim to find, understand, qualify and manage sales opportunities which are matching and accomplishing our strategic targets. 

• Understand customer needs and establish good and sound relations with stakeholders 
• Be in close contact with customer and learn early about new opportunities
• Close and active collaboration Supply Chain Management
• Drive and support continuous improvement of all Sales relevant topics incl. the Sales Process

Why Fortum?

The greatest challenge of our time awaits you. To drive the change for a cleaner world, we need to reshape the energy system. To reach our goal, we embrace a culture of openness. With mutual trust, believing in people, and taking care of everyone's wellbeing, we can reach even better results. Flexibility is the new normal and we apply hybrid way of working wherever possible.

For you, working at Fortum means exciting opportunities to develop your expertise and create a meaningful career. We will support you on this journey. We believe diversity and inclusion inspire all of us to innovate and grow together. Therefore, we are committed to building teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

What we are looking for

• Skills in understanding complex customer needs.
• Competence in sales of services
• Strong customer orientation with the ability to align customer targets with internal priorities
• Distinguished communication, networking and negotiation skills
• Basic technical understanding of battery technologies
• Hands-on mentality and open-minded, paired with a flexible, self-driven and solution focused working style to cope with a fast growing work environment
• English fluent in speaking and writing

Prefferred location is Finland and the role will require some travelling.

Interested?

Submit your application via the link by Monday 17.10.2022 at the latest. If you would like to hear more about the position, please contact Commercial Director, Jaakko Savolainen, +358 40 501 4836 or through e-mail [email protected]. 

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.

At Fortum we drive change where it matters. We are a European energy company providing our customers with electricity, gas, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. Together with our subsidiary Uniper, we are the third largest producer of CO2-free electricity in Europe. With around 20,000 professionals and activities in more than 40 countries, we have the competence and resources to grow and to drive the energy transition forward. We strive to make an impact through a culture of open leadership, curiosity and continuous improvement. Do you want to take an active role for a cleaner world? Come lead the change with us! www.fortum.com