The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal and leadership skills, as well as be proactive, customer-oriented, and driven to succeed in a fast-paced environment. You will be self-motivated and enjoy independent fieldwork that will deliver extraordinary results. You will work effectively at various customer levels including dealers, contractors, consultants and government bodies, to educate, justify and successfully promote Rain Bird irrigation products. The person will be required to drive the sales and marketing effort of the Landscape business to develop and gain market share in a highly competitive market.

• Promote to contractors, municipalities or public entities, private companies and specifiers on using/buying Rain Bird landscape products and services
• Demonstrate to these customers Rain Bird’s landscape products and services, their application, key benefits and ease of troubleshooting.
• Make field visits to landscape sites to solicit orders for product and service sales
• Coordinate sales efforts with the Distribution Manager and possible key distributors to secure Rain Bird turf sales
• Participation in demo days, road shows, customer fly-ins and trainings, tradeshows and regional sales meetings
• Managing phone basic technical support to all customers/users in local language
• Strive to differentiate Rain Bird from its competitors by providing superior customer service, high visibility and aggressive call coverage cycle
• Maintain & utilize customer database for direct marketing and communication efforts

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Undergraduate university degree
• 5+ years’ work experience in sales or equivalent
• Computer skills including working knowledge of Word & Excel
• Self-motivated, team player, aggressive, and strong communication skills
• Fluent in Romanian and English
• Enjoys traveling at least 70% of the time

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working level proficiency of spoken and written Hungarian