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Sales Manager (m/f/d)
Acla - Works · Full-time · Köln · seit 02.10.2026
Full-time
About Us
Our products make a big difference. With you, even more so.
Whether wheels and rollers, guide elements or buffers: ACLA products move, guide and dampen – thus performing important tasks in machines and systems worldwide. Behind this diversity lie high-quality polyurethane elastomers, technical expertise and the experience of a long-established, medium-sized company.
Our customers' requirements are as diverse as our products. This is precisely what makes sales with us so exciting: you deal with different applications, delve into technical issues, and work together with our experts to find the right solution.
For our technical sales team , we are looking for a person who combines engineering knowledge with customer focus and accompanies projects from the initial idea to technical implementation.
Your tasks
• Understanding and advising customers: You will look after existing and new customers and advise them on our products and their areas of application.
• Advancing customer projects: You provide technical and commercial support for new projects, plan deadlines, and coordinate customer requirements with research & development and design.
• Developing new applications: You identify and develop new areas of application for our products and materials.
• Accompanying sampling and trials: You oversee samples and trials and coordinate the results with customers and internal departments.
• Resolving technical problems: You process and assess complaints, analyze the causes of failures and product problems, and clarify these with our customers.
• Processing offers and orders: You create calculations and offers and handle order processing.
ACLA is represented at trade fairs: They prepare trade fair appearances and are available on site as technical contacts for our customers and prospective customers.
• Accompanying investments: They support purchasing and production in investment projects with technical and organizational issues.
Qualification
• A completed university or university of applied sciences degree in engineering or a comparable qualification
• Experience in technical sales, ideally in the plastics industry
• Proficient use of MS Office and an inventory management system
• Strong customer focus, excellent communication skills, and a passion for explaining technical concepts in an understandable way
• Willingness to undertake occasional business trips
We offer
• Remuneration according to chemical industry collective agreement: We are bound by the chemical industry collective agreement of the IG BCE.
• Financial extras: 13th month salary and holiday pay
• Planning for the future: company pension scheme via Allianz
• Mobile with JobRad: Bicycle leasing for commuting and leisure
Time for your life: flexible working hours
• Convenient for everyday life: drinks at the workplace and free parking
• Room for development: a secure workplace with diverse tasks and development opportunities