Join the growth of a successful and dynamic partner in aquaculture
Sales Engineer & Biologist, Salmon
CM Aqua produce and deliver state of the art equipment for water treatment for international aquaculture. CM Aqua has been experiencing strong growth and is renowned in the business for outstanding quality products and long-lasting client relationships with trust at heart. Building trust as clients’ advisors has proven important to become a long-term player and generate consistent business growth, supported by service orientation and collaborative problem-solving. A client-centric sales department with high degree of expertise and commercial flair is the foundation of CM Aqua’s success. Their business growth brings the need to further strengthen CM Aqua commercial presence and competencies, bringing in new sales power to cover opportunities in Norway, CM Aqua’s biggest market.
Your Responsibilities and Tasks
As CM Aqua Sales Engineer & Biologist, you will be based in Trondheim and work closely together with the Sales Manager for Norway, whom you will report to. You will leverage on your knowledge of aquaculture to develop commercial propositions and your key tasks will be:
- Collaborate to strengthen CM Aqua presence in Norway, interacting with clients together with the Sales Manager Norway.
- The aim is to be more proactive towards OEM for both RAS and Ships in Norway and grow the business selling CM Aqua top products such as HEX drums, Ratz Skimmers, and solutions like LiftUp or fish transport tanks.
- Continue building a CM Aqua knowledge platform in Norway, so customer requests are handled efficiently and locally.
- Liaise with CM Aqua clients and seek relevant data from CM Aqua installations to create further business opportunities.
- Share knowledge with, coordinate and work together with CM Aqua colleagues around the world, gaining project and client exposure internationally. You will travel around Norway and occasionally also abroad.
Your Skills & Experience
As an ideal candidate for this exciting role, you:
- Have a relevant educational background, e.g. in the field of biology or technology/engineering, that can be applied to aquaculture and will allow you to gain understanding of CM Aqua solutions and their applications for clients.
- Have already gained practical experience with salmon, especially from e.g., de-lice ships, well boats, or land-based aquaculture farms in Norway.
- While it is not required that you already have direct experience in sales, you are used to and motivated to advise customers and business partners.
- Your knowledge must be at a level allowing you to have conversations with CM Aqua customers about salmons and this way fast learn the core knowledge needed to advise about filtration.
- You will do that by leveraging on the capabilities listed above, but also on your strong interpersonal- and communication skills. You have native/fluent Norwegian language skills and speak good English.
Other key capabilities that will make you successful in CM Aqua will be: - Ability to listen and understand customers’ needs and act as an advisor, showing credibility and trustworthiness.
- Drive, flexibility, and motivation to support the team (teamwork is essential).
- Motivation to work in changing, evolving and fast-growing environments, being resilient and showing sense of initiative.
- Constructive and open-minded style, ambitious to achieve goals while being eager to contribute to a positive and collaborative company culture.
Your Opportunity
In CM Aqua, you will have the chance to:
- Join an international organisation with established business, high quality products, a strong client network, solid financial backing and a consistently fast-growing business in an industry that is future-proof and can make a difference in reaching sustainable goals for the world.
- Work closely with the CM Aqua leadership team.
- Make an impact and be part of the journey of a growing company. You will contribute to bring the organisation to the next level of maturity, by implementing strategy and best practice, and by working with exciting clients.
- Join an open and welcoming culture made of business-savvy, strong technical experts with extensive experience and true passion for the business: colleagues will not hesitate to include and support you.
- Work on high quality products with strong market reputation, providing excellent service, quick response and reliability, delivering premium solutions to partners.
We look forward to hearing from you
Please send your CV and cover letter by the 12th of March. If you have any questions about the position, please contact Angeline Vassbakke on +47 901 44 346.
