About the job

Great career opportunity to utilize industrial automation/production machinery experience and join a leading global technology innovator that’s driving market share growth in Tanzania.

Our 'Strategic Account Manager' role will suit an equipment maintenance engineer (ideally within food/beverage production) looking to move into sales, who can collaborate with distributors to understand and solve customer’s industrial automation challenges and sell our state-of-the-art printing, coding, and marking equipment.

The Opportunity

Working in Videojet, a Danaher Company, the jobholder visits a range of food, beverage and other consumer packaged goods production companies and plants across East Africa (~70% Tanzania focus) to upsell and promote our renowned machines.

Based at home, with regular site visits, this richly varied sales role encompasses account plan development and global best practice alignment, prospecting via marketing leads & cold calls, attending trade shows, and the development of all sales in partnership with an established local distributor.

Videojet/Danaher provides an outstanding onboarding & training program, professional development, and genuine longer-term career opportunities. There is significant untapped market potential in Tanzania so if you’ve ever wondered what you’re truly capable of, there’s no better place to find out!

The Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree (engineering preferred), fluent English, good technical knowledge and relevant experience in industrial automation environments, and looking to move into sales
• Customer outcome and results focused, with excellent communication, listening, relationship building and influencing skills. A consultative approach to uncover and solve customer’s needs
• Self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset and the drive to succeed in a high-performance environment

About Videojet

A leading global provider of state-of-the-art industrial automation technology that enables companies to print, code or mark data on a huge variety of products (batch numbers, barcodes, use-by dates etc.)

Videojet is part of Danaher Corporation (www.danaher.com), a Fortune 500 encompassing 80,000 associates across 29 science & technology companies that positively impact people’s lives.

We celebrate diversity and are immensely proud of our inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong, and all voices are heard.