Air Liquide

Sales Consultant

Air Liquide  •  South Africa (Onsite)  •  12 hours ago
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Job Description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

As a Sales Consultant at Air Liquide, you will build and lead high-impact partnerships with key industrial clients, acting as a trusted advisor to ensure they maximize the full strategic value and return on investment of our world-class gas and service solutions. In this dynamic, high-visibility role, you will combine hands-on relationship management with commercial strategy, engaging directly with customer teams on-site, understanding their evolving operational needs, and driving account growth through targeted cross-selling and up-selling initiatives.

  • Identifying opportunities and setting up meetings with other divisions and/ or stakeholders in current Customer accounts.
  • Acting as a strategic advisor to all appropriate stakeholders within a customer account through continued research and detailed analysis to understand and anticipate Customer needs.
  • Follow up and monitor customer queries and complaints through effective interdepartmental communication to ensure timeous resolution.
  • Conducting and performing Cylinder Audits, report on Customer Satisfaction Surveys, recording near misses and tracking and assisting with collection of customer payments within defined payment window (Debtor Days).
  • Establish open communication channels between the Customer and relevant departments within Air Liquide to ensure customer satisfaction, prospecting on a consistent basis through cold calling, customer referrals and networking to obtain appointments with appropriate stakeholders and conduct effective preparation for appointments and engaging in continuous research on: Customer needs, current market position, Industry opportunities and challenges.
  • Following the Air Liquide sales engagement process in all interactions, including both telephonic and face-to-face meetings, Setting-up and executing meetings with prospective Customers to diagnose needs, create value and present solution offerings. Negotiating competitive pricing structures and contracts that ensures profitability for Air Liquide and effective service delivery to Customers.
  • Construct financial agreements (Profit and Loss) and diagnostic findings on customer needs (Defining Customer Needs) for internal approval, communicate and negotiating price increases timeously and effectively to Customers, contributing to monthly sales related reports.
  • Reporting on contributor activity and information, Tracking sales performance against targets, engaging in consistent research to build a thorough knowledge and munderstanding of territory, current industry, market and competitor trends and developments.
  • Monitor and research development and changes in assigned territories, engage in continuous learnings to exhibit a thorough understanding of Air Liquide products and solutions.

Are you a MATCH?

Educational requirements

  • Degree/Diploma in Sales and Marketing or Engineering
  • Valid driver's license

Experience

  • 3-5 years minimum sales experience in gas or related industry

Knowledge and Know-how specific to the job

  • Operate autonomously
  • Strategic prospecting through cold calling, referrals and networking
  • Knowledge of a consultative and diagnostic sales process in a B2B sales environment with long sales cycles
  • Business acumen including knowledge of business sectors, current market and industry status
  • New business development
  • Account management and post-sale relationship management
  • Strong negotiation skills

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Air Liquide

About Air Liquide

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 72 countries with 67,800 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Taking action today while preparing the future is at the heart of Air Liquide’s strategy. With ADVANCE, its strategic plan for 2025, Air Liquide is targeting a global performance, combining financial and extra-financial dimensions. Positioned on new markets, the Group benefits from major assets such as its business model combining resilience and strength, its ability to innovate and its technological expertise. The Group develops solutions contributing to climate and the energy transition—particularly with hydrogen—and takes action to progress in areas of healthcare, digital and high technologies.

Air Liquide’s revenue amounted to more than 27.5 billion euros in 2023. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good and DJSI Europe indexes.

Industry
Chemicals & Materials
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Paris, FR
Year Founded
Unknown
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