About the Role
Drive FactoryPal’s commercial expansion across Europe and North America by focusing on mid-to-late stage sales, engaging medium-sized and large industrial manufacturers in complex, consultative sales cycles. Nurture long-term customer relationships and support footprint expansion within existing accounts.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage end-to-end sales processes from first meeting to contract closure.
- Engage key decision-makers and influencers across operations, production, and leadership levels.
- Present FactoryPal’s value through product demos, ROI cases, and performance benchmarks.
- Collaborate closely with SDRs to convert qualified leads into active sales opportunities.
- Build and manage a high-quality pipeline in CRM, updating forecasts and key metrics regularly.
- Coordinate technical validation activities with Engineering and Customer Success teams.
- Work with Marketing to tailor messaging and campaigns for your territory.
- Participate in key industry events and customer visits to drive awareness and develop stakeholder relationships.
- Help improve the sales playbook by sharing customer feedback and learnings.
- Develop relationships with potential partners and resellers to support global expansion.
- Travel to customer factories approximately 30% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related fields.
- Several years of sales experience including 3+ years in complex B2B sales, preferably with industrial or manufacturing clients.
- Proven success managing long-cycle deals and high-ACV enterprise contracts.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, especially in technical sales settings.
- Experience selling into international markets, especially in Europe and/or North America.
- Comfortable working with technical buyers and explaining integrations, KPIs like OEE, and analytics tools.
- Fluency in English and German is mandatory.
- Self-driven, collaborative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a growing startup.
- Based out of Berlin.
Skills
- B2B sales
- Industrial sales
- Manufacturing sales
- Complex B2B sales
- Long-cycle deals
- High-ACV enterprise contracts
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Technical sales
- International sales
- CRM
- Sales playbook development
- Partner development
- Reseller development
- AI/ML
- Industrial IoT
- Cloud SaaS
Location
- Berlin
- Europe
- North America
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience in complex B2B sales
- Several years of sales experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related fields
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 30 days vacation
- Dedicated training budget
- Flexible, hybrid work setup
About the Company
- FactoryPal is redefining how factories perform by connecting shopfloors through cutting-edge software to improve transparency, efficiency, and decision-making.
- Our B2B SaaS solution empowers manufacturers to optimize performance and reach new levels of operational excellence.
- Backed by Valmet and Körber, FactoryPal combines the energy of a start-up with the reach and credibility of two global leaders in industrial technology.
- Headquartered in Berlin, we are scaling a solution that is transforming manufacturing operations across the tissue and other sectors.
- Valmet is a global technology leader serving process industries, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions.
- Valmet has over 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals.
- Valmet's net sales totaled approximately EUR 5.4 billion in 2024.
- Valmet's head office is in Espoo, Finland, with experts in approximately 40 countries.
Equal Opportunity
- To protect our candidates' privacy, Valmet will never ask any personal information such as banking information or social security number during the recruitment process.
