Job Description

Start your career as a (future) Technical Sales Leader with Sherwin-Williams!

Become a driving force behind our Sales and Technical Expertise in our Performance Coatings Group, within Industrial Wood Coatings. We're looking for motivated recent graduates ready to take on the challenge!

Location: This exciting role requires frequent travel within the Czech Republic and Slovakia and Hungary. To support your personal learning in our offices and manufactory sites, living in the Czech Republic, ideally around Brno is preferred.

Ideal Candidate: Are you a Technical Expert, Sales and/or Coatings enthusiast with a passion for developing business relationships? Do you have experience in Technical Wood applications, Sales or Customer service? If so, this position is designed for you!

What We Offer: In return, we offer an exciting career with continuous support, learning and development, within a growing, international company. Enjoy an attractive salary, great professional and personal development opportunities and the chance to kickstart your career in the field of Business-2-Business Technical Sales.

Your Role and How You’ll Make a Difference: As a Graduate on our Sales Development Programme, you will learn and develop into the role of a Technical Sales Representative within one of the biggest Coatings Companies in the world, specialising in Industrial Wood coatings.

• Immerse in Sales: Spend 18 months in a deep-dive experience, developing key skills that will lead to a Technical Sales Representative career.
• Build Strong Relationships: Develop new influential connections with customers and business leaders.
• Job Shadow and spend time with different stakeholders: experience our product development in the Research & Development Lab, solve difficult technical problems with our Technical Services team or experience how our products are made in our production sites.
• Excel in Training: Gain knowledge and understanding of our Sherwin-Williams Sales processes, business operations, paint products, market segments, and go-to-market strategies work.
• Seize Opportunities: Identify opportunities for customer service or technical enhancements, upselling, and maximizing resources with innovative solutions.
• Travel and Explore: Be open to business travel up to 50% of the time, sometimes with overnight stays, and embrace the opportunity to relocate for Post-Graduate Program opportunities.

Ideally you will have:

• A relevant Bachelor's / Master’s degree or relevant vocational training (ideally within wood technical coatings)
• A passion for creating strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders and customers
• Ideally working knowledge of some (technical) Sales or working in a Lab.
• Openess to relocation based on business needs.
• Valid and unrestricted driver’s license.
• Fluency in the English language

Join us at Sherwin-Williams! Apply now and take the first step towards an exciting and rewarding career

What's Next?
After submitting your application, get ready for a call from Talent Acquisition where we’ll dive deeper into your experiences and skills and get to know you.

Final Steps:
In May you'll be invited to an interview. This is your chance to meet the team, showcase your talents, and explore exciting career opportunities at Sherwin-Williams.

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At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible

Eligibility to Work
You will need to provide proof of right to work. It is a condition of any offer of employment we make to you that you have the permission to work in the country for the role for which you are applying for.

Equal Opportunity Employer
An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.

Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.