Sales Manager (m/w/d)

At ACCURE, we empower batteries and those who use them.

Batteries are a key element of our clean energy and mobility future. ACCURE makes batteries safe, reliable, and sustainable through the power of the cloud. Using our highly scalable monitoring and optimization platform, we drastically improve the performance of batteries in electric vehicles and grid storage systems around the world.

Our mission: Safe, efficient, and sustainable batteries for a clean energy future.

To do this, we need passionate builders and storytellers. At ACCURE, people with diverse backgrounds work together on our common vision of a clean energy future. We value passion and humbleness and are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our fast-growing international team.

Your Role

• Drive sales excellence: Expand our presence in existing and new markets (especially BESS) while accelerating business growth by addressing relevant in-bound and out-bound leads with your extended expertise in technical battery related topics.
• Push product optimisation: Work collaboratively with our product development unit, providing crucial market insights and customer feedback to refine and optimise our offerings, ensuring they align perfectly with market demands.
• Generate market insights: Conduct thorough market research to uncover unexplored opportunities, deeply understand customer requirements, and analyse strengths and weaknesses of competitors.
• Advance team development: With a servant leadership approach, lead and/or mentor our expanding sales team, providing clear direction, guidance, support, and identifying avenues for professional growth.
• Team Work matters: Collaborate closely with the executive team as well as your colleagues in the Business Development & Sales Department, Marketing and Customer Success.
• Help shaping a greener future: Your work will have a direct impact on the environment and how batteries are being used in the future.

Your Skills

• Experience: You have a demonstrated track record of at least 2 years in the battery business (ideally BESS) and sales, ideally within the context of a start-up or high-growth environment and can prove extensive expertise in battery systems and/or e-mobility.
• Existing network: You have a pre-existing network in the domains of BESS and/or battery business of automotive OEMs and can utilise that to increase relevant opportunities.
• Methodical Sales approach: Your work style is defined by structure, an entrepreneurial way of thinking and a resolute focus on delivering results. Complex environments and projects are just right for you, as they allow you to put your design skills to the test.
• Team-Oriented Personality: A strategic thinker who remains grounded in a hands-on approach, you personify a team-oriented and servant ethos.
• Languages: You have excellent communication skills, and confidence in negotiating in business English. Speaking German is a big plus but not required.

Our Offer

• Impact: Join a collaborative, growing start-up environment in a role that has a significant impact on all levels of our organization.
• Shape your role: Actively shape this role and its scope with us, depending on your expertise and preferences.
• Work-life-balance: Trust-based, flexible working hours, 30-day vacation entitlement.
• Carnival: We love carnival. That's why we're giving you Rose Monday as an extra day of holiday. ALAAF!
• Compensation: Performance-based compensation plan.
• Remote or office based: It’s your choice – either work from our lovely office in Aachen, choose a co-working space wherever you live or work from home (somewhere in Europe).
• Company events: Two 5-day company onsites per year + (remote) team events.
• Never stop learning: Personal development plan and budget that you can actively shape.
• A job that shapes the future and turns our planet greener one battery at a time.

At ACCURE, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We believe our unique qualities must be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at ACCURE. We strive to embed it not just into our core values but throughout our entire ecosystem.