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KION Group

Forklift, warehouse equipment and software solutions

Business Development Manager

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven experience in solution sales, business development, or strategic account management within industrial, automation, logistics, or technical environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted, long-term customer relationships and establish credibility with senior operational and executive stakeholders.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance customer outcomes with business objectives.
  • Ability to identify emerging customer needs, understand operational challenges, and translate these into practical commercial solutions.
  • Communication, influencing, and negotiation skills to guide customers through complex decision-making processes.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across service, engineering, operations, and solution design teams.
  • Understanding of financial outcomes and ability to manage priorities and deadlines effectively.
  • Degree qualification in an engineering, technical, scientific, or related discipline.
  • Understanding of occupational health and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Represent the Dematic brand professionally, with integrity and strong customer engagement.
  • Develop and strengthen strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders across organizational levels, embedding relationships with Dematic rather than individual employees.
  • Build a deep understanding of customer operations, business objectives, and future challenges to identify improvement opportunities and long-term partnership growth.
  • Work with customers as a trusted key account manager to identify current and emerging service sales, lifecycle services, automation sales, and operational requirements, and develop value-driven solutions.
  • Drive service sales, technical sales, and automation sales growth by developing and maintaining a pipeline of opportunities that support sustainable business growth and customer success.
  • Partner with the Service Manager, Senior Solution Development & Design Manager, and Solutions team to evaluate, develop, and propose competitive technical service, automated guided vehicle, and automation solutions aligned to customer needs and service strategy.
  • Share customer requirements, market trends, and operational insights across the business.
  • Foster customer retention through proactive engagement, strategic account planning, and value-added lifecycle services.
  • Oversee customer opportunities from initial engagement through solution delivery and ongoing support, ensuring a positive customer experience and identifying additional service sales, technical sales, and automation sales opportunities.

About the Company

KION Group

Forklift, warehouse equipment and software solutions

KION Group provides forklifts, warehouse equipment, and integrated automation, along with software to optimize supply chains. It sells and leases industrial trucks, offers automated storage/retrieval and warehouse management software, and provides financing and digital transformation services through KION Digital. Its strength comes from a broad brand portfolio (Linde MH, STILL, Dematic, Baoli, Fenwick, OM, Voltas) delivering end-to-end intralogistics across hardware, software, automation, and services for real-time, secure operations. The goal is to help customers improve efficiency, accuracy, and visibility in their supply chains by tightly integrating material handling with digital tools and services.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Wiesbaden, Germany
Founded
2006

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