Job Description
Sales Manager for skills.lab Football Training Systems, UK
Anton Paar SportsTec develops and produces the most advanced measurement and training systems in world football under the brand "skills.lab". Our skills.lab Arena, skills.lab Studio and skills.lab Cube systems are used by some of the most prestigious and successful football clubs in the world. To continue our growth, we are now looking for a sales manager located in the UK.
Responsibilities:
- Sales of skills.lab football training systems to professional clubs, federations, public training centers, and commercial football experience venues in the United Kingdom
- Acquisition of new accounts and management of existing customers
- Operational planning of sales activities
- Meeting of annual sales budget
- Presenting at conferences and exhibitions
- Reporting to the Head of Marketing and Sales
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in the football industry in the UK
- Proven track record of successful occupations at football clubs or substantial partners to football clubs
- Understanding of market needs in football clubs and commercial football applications
- Experience in selling and managing customer projects
- A personal network that allows you to initiate conversation with decision makers in clubs, associations and companies
- A profound understanding of the European football market in general and the market in the United Kingdom in particular
- Convincing appearance and sales attitude
- Strong communication and negotiation skills in native-level English language proficiency
- High degree of initiative and problem-solving skills as well as self-organized attitude to work
- Availability to travel throughout the UK and occasionally to central Europe for training and business meetings
- A degree in sports science is an advantage
We offer you:
- A competitive and strongly performance-oriented package of base salary and attractive commissions
- Company car, company laptop and mobile phone
- A reliable and long-term workplace in our expanding high-tech company
- An innovative company culture that promotes technical excellence guaranteeing us the position of a technological leader in the global football market
- Work outside office
- Individual training and onboarding at the headquarters in Austria
Entry: Immediately
skills.lab is the leading international brand for high-tech training systems in football. skills.lab systems combine efficient training with a data-driven approach to accurately measure and individually improve a players' individual technical and cognitive performance. The training systems are used by some of the biggest and most successful clubs in international football, like FC Bayern Munich.
All this is made possible by using state-of-the-art technology from Anton Paar. The company, headquartered in Graz, Austria, develops, produces and sells high-precision measurement technology. Anton Paar employs around 4,000 people in 110 countries worldwide. Since 2013, the know-how of a world market leader in measurement technology has resulted in three systems, first and foremost the skills.lab Arena, where training on 320 m² of artificial turf becomes a match-like football experience.