Sales Manager The Netherlands (Native Dutch & Fluent English)

Location: Field-based in the Netherlands, with regular travel to customers and team members across the country.

Company

hirify.global, part of Veralto, develops water-quality analysis solutions designed to make water analysis faster, simpler, greener, and more informative.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Dutch sales team through clear priorities, field coaching, and performance conversations.
• Translate business objectives into country sales plans, account priorities, activity plans, and measurable commercial actions.
• Join customer visits and strategic account discussions where technical credibility or senior commercial leadership adds value.
• Strengthen existing customer and key-account relationships, identifying cross-sell, upsell, retention, and new-business opportunities.
• Build and maintain a qualified pipeline through disciplined follow-up, forecasting, and commercial performance management.
• Partner with service, applications, marketing, product, and other internal teams to deliver a consistent customer experience.

Requirements

• Completed bachelor’s degree in a technical, engineering, environmental, scientific, or commercial discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• At least 5 years of B2B sales experience involving technical products, solutions, instrumentation, or services.
• At least 3 years of formal people-management experience, including coaching, performance management, and team development.
• Experience managing key accounts and developing new business in a consultative or solution-selling environment.
• Experience using a CRM system for pipeline management, forecasting, account activity, and commercial performance.
• Professional fluency in Dutch and English, both written and spoken.
• Valid driving licence and willingness to travel regularly throughout the Netherlands.

Nice to have

• Experience in water, wastewater, process instrumentation, environmental technology, laboratory solutions, industrial automation, or a comparable technical market.
• Leadership style combining clear expectations with practical field support and coaching.
• Ability to connect customer challenges to technical and commercial value while maintaining execution focus.
• Comfort working across functions and building trust between customers, sales, service, and technical specialists.

Culture & Benefits

• Purpose-led work focused on protecting water quality and supporting access to clean water.
• Field-based and flexible working environment with regular customer and team interaction.
• Professional onboarding, product training, continuous learning, career coaching, and development opportunities within hirify.global and Veralto.
• Collaborative international environment with strong technical and commercial expertise.