Commercial employee vacancies

Do you love to engage daily with sales figures, customer contact, and do you like to get the most out of your day? Then a position as a commercial employee might be something for you.

You can work both in the office in the internal sales department or go out to customers in the field sales department. In the internal sales department, you mostly have contact with customers by phone and email. In the field sales department, you visit customers on location to sell a product or service.

What does a commercial employee do?

When you work as an internal sales commercial employee, you will mostly have contact with customers of the company you work for by phone, but also via email. Usually, this company sells a product, but they may also provide services. You work on the customer relationship and manage orders or sell products or services. You are often the first point of contact for the customer and play an important role in the customer relationship, as you naturally want to retain your customers.

It may also be that you work as a market researcher, where you call potential customers to see if they are interested in the product or service. Eventually, the account manager or representative (often by appointment) visits the interested customers. This is also known as an outbound call center employee.

As a field sales commercial employee, you really visit customers or potential customers, usually by appointment. This is also known as an account manager, but usually, as an account manager, you also have the role of relationship manager and visit regularly. You will sell products or services to (potential customers) and handle the entire aftersales. Think of preparing quotes and negotiating rates.

Usually, you work as a commercial employee based on targets. You are responsible, either alone or with your team, for achieving the targets, and there are usually nice bonuses attached to this.

How do you become a commercial employee?  

The MBO course for commercial employee, but also the direction of salesperson is a good basis. You usually don't need a specific education, often you can start if you have experience with customers and sales in, for example, a store as a sales assistant or call center employee. A good motivation is also important, you must enjoy selling, want to learn everything about it, and be able to handle targets. 

 

What does a commercial employee earn on average?  
 

The salary of a commercial employee is approximately between 1900 and 2300 euros gross per month when you work full-time. If you have more experience, this can increase. Your salary is determined based on your age, experience, and the number and size of the clients.  

 

What is the career perspective of a commercial employee?  

As a commercial employee, you have many options, you can often grow internally from junior to senior. But you can also go in many directions with your sales experience. You can often still take courses or training to further advance.