Sales Manager in Solar Industry - Abu Dhabi - Urgently Required

Description: Sales Manager (M/F) Dubai

We, Provado (www.provado.de) are a private, medium-sized management consultancy with more than 250 permanently employed consultants in 31 subsidiaries and daughter companies worldwide.

Scenario
Our customer is an American stock exchange listed solar company, producing among other things photovoltaic cells and modules. They are the one who are producing the string ribbon system. In 2008 the company had an annual sale of 112 million USD. As the next step of their international development they focus -beside larger projects in china and worldwide marketing-organization in general -to expand the distributions especially in Dubai with state-subsidized PV programs and interesting conditions in regarding the regulation of the feed-in tariff. For these requires our client needs a qualified person, who takes these duties strategically and implement them effectively and successfully.

Main tasks:
• work with distributors, especially the technical firms
• win new technical advisers, architects, building project engineers for the company or their products
• build up and develop the regional market further rapidly
• expand distribution to be more effective
• acquire new customers/ major customers (technical firms/ distributors) and support existing customers

Education and work experience
• Certificate engineer/ engineer or economical degree/ education with very good technical training
• Wide range of know-how of developing the regional markets, as well as the "direct" distribution and know how in initiation of projects and working with the trade partners.
• Proved ability to market technically demanding products or arrangements and of build up regional markets
• Sales manager with perennial experience or comprehensive praxis in dealing with the following problems: corporate planning and development, marketing and distribution
• long range oriented personality with superior performance orientation
• superior ability in handling of complex tasks and requirements

Other requirements
• Know how in renewable energy will be an advantage
• Besides Arabic at least good English
• Mobility and high willingness to travel (> 50%)

Salary • according to experience
Location • Dubai
If you are interested in the job offer and want to take this challenge please send us your CV to the following contactdetails:
Niru Magendiran: international-recruiting@provado.de