European Sales Training Specialist (F/M)
Kubota Corporation has been a leading manufacturer of agricultural, turf, hay and construction equipment since 1890. With world Headquarters in Osaka Japan, and offices in more than 110 countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia, Kubota achieved revenues last year over $16 billion. Although, agricultural equipment is Kubota’s primary line of products, Kubota also produces a diverse line of other products including city wide water filtration systems, irrigation, piping, roofing, housing and large underground valves.
Our Mission:
Our mission, “For Earth, For Life” speaks to our sustainability commitment to the preservation of the earth’s natural environment while aiding in production of food and water supplies that are vital to societal needs as our world population continues to grow. That mission is realized each time a Kubota tractor harvests the land to produce life sustaining food or our construction equipment excavates to transport water resources or provide shelter.
We believe the education of our staff and channel partners in the ever advancing technology we develop is crucial. To continue to pursue this objective we are looking to hire a European Sales Training Specialist for our Tractor division.
The European Sales Training Specialist will focus mainly on our sales force, dealers and, to some extent, end users across Europe, and be responsible for (but not limited to):
- Development of Groundscare and Agriculture product sales training material
- Sales Training Development in line with Kubota sales company and dealer salesmen’s needs.
- product training (e.g. Features and Benefits, Competitive advantages)
- non-product training which will enable dealer salesmen to correctly use Kubota tools e.g. Product Configurator, Finance, Service solutions
- Regarding new product introductions work closely with the relevant Kubota and Kverneland colleagues to ensure that high-quality sales training materials are developed and made available to sales companies prior to production launch.
- EU link to both Kubota, Japan, as well as with North American colleagues
Requirements:
- Ideally educated to Bsc or Msc level in a relevant subject – i.e. Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Agrocology, Organic Agriculture, etc
- At least 2 years of relevant Sales and/or Product Marketing as well as technical experience
- Agriculture and/or Groundscare experience
- Strong communicator
- Willingness to travel ( 10-15% in Europe)
- Fluent in English, any additional European languages are an advantage (German, French, Italian or Spanish preferred)
Workplace:
This position can be located at any of our Kubota or Kverneland sites (in Spain, France, Italy, UK, Germany, Denmark or Norway)
Type of contract:
Permanent contract