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Are you looking for a future career that serves a true purpose and has a real impact? At VTT Sales, you can make a difference together with other brilliant minds in our research organisation. As a SDR you will play a central role to help our customers grow with VTT future technologies.
VTT is one of the leading applied research organisations in Europe. What unites us are curiosity, a passion for learning, and a purpose: to solve the biggest challenges of our time and turn them into sustainable growth and well-being. Our cross-disciplinary community of over 2000 brilliant minds focuses on creating impact through science-based innovation. Get to know us further by exploring VTT's tech & infra.
We are looking for a SDR, Microelectronics, Quantum technology, Printed electronics & Sensing solutions areas
Thanks to our increasing number of customer research projects, we are now able to hire a new pair of helping hands to our sales team. As a SDR you are actively contributing to our offer creation, pricing, and project proposals, always helping our customers grow. The person we are looking for is a team player, able to sell technology solutions together with sales and research colleagues. You have a passion for commercial activities and basic technical understanding. You will also be able to learn a lot more about both our sales and our technology solutions in this position, enabling on the job development.
The VTT office location for this position is preferably Espoo, other VTT locations (Oulu, Tampere, Jyväskylä) are negotiable.
We are working with tailored solutions and products that revolutionize tomorrow’s markets. We are proud of our excellent innovation capabilities in the research areas and collaborate with several related global key players. We innovate new technological solutions and help our customers to enter new markets.
As SDR, you will:
- Contribute to offering creation and service models together with sales and research colleagues
- Support project valuation
- Assist in presentation preparation to project plans, project proposals and other customer sales material
- Participate in marketing action planning and execution
- Participate in and coordinate exhibitions
Who we are looking for:
- A passion for commercial activities
- Suitable technical education
- Eagerness to work with our customers, enabling their business growth
- Fluent communication skills in English, both spoken and written, are required. Other possible language skills are considered an advantage
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and engaging relevant people in building winning cases, a team player
As a person, we hope that you are:
- An energetic and dynamic professional
- You love connecting with new persons
- You truly enjoy working with customers and your motivation comes from finding solutions for customers
- Besides having a humble attitude, you have the ambition to drive results and close deals
- You are goal-oriented
- You have an analytical mindset and utilize a systematic approach in sales
- In addition, you are a team player able to collaborate with many stakeholders
With VTT, you’ll enjoy:
- Work with a strong purpose. At VTT, you’ll get to use your professional expertise to help solve the greatest challenges of our time through science and innovation. Our research agenda is dedicated to creating solutions for systemic and technological challenges, such as reaching carbon neutrality and creating superior digital systems. At VTT, you’ll get to do your part in driving this meaningful change through your professional skills. Read more about our strategy, the path of exponential hope, and our organisational culture as the builder of the world's most meaningful place to work.
- An inspiring community. VTT houses all the cutting-edge fields of innovation, from quantum technology to synthetic biology, under one roof. As a professional at VTT, you’ll witness and influence the future of science and technology as it happens.
- Career and learning opportunities. As a scientific expert organisation, we emphasise learning and development and support our people in reaching their full potential. People stay at VTT for more than ten years, as we offer opportunities to develop and grow into new responsibilities. If you’re curious, ambitious, and willing to learn, VTT is the place to take your career to the next level.
- Support for your well-being. Our people are our main asset, so we take good care of them. We aim to nurture excellent team spirit and leadership and offer versatile well-being services to enable a good work-life balance. On top of 6 weeks of paid holidays, we offer exercise and culture benefits, hobby clubs, and voluntary well-being services such as meditation and cognitive ergonomics training.
Apply now and join our community of brilliant minds!
Please send your CV and application with your salary request via our recruitment system as soon as possible but at the latest by Sunday August 13th, 2023. We will start processing applications in the beginning of August and fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate.
Interested and want to know more?
For further information, please contact Pekka Karimaa (Head of Sales and Customer Partnerships) +358 40 560 1749 on Tuesday Aug 8th, from 10-11 or on Thursday Aug 10th, from 10-11.
We look forward to hearing from you!
VTT
VTT is a visionary research, development and innovation partner. We drive sustainable growth and tackle the biggest global challenges of our time and turn them into growth opportunities. We go beyond the obvious to help the society and companies to grow through technological innovations. We have 80 years of experience of top-level research and science-based results. VTT is at the sweet spot where innovation and business come together.
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