Company Description
Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industrial specialist. The company, founded in 1871, generated sales of 19.7 billion euros in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 employees in 54 countries and markets.
With a network of over 450 locations, Vergölst ensures customer mobility nationwide. Founded in Aachen in 1926, Germany's oldest tire specialist retailer has grown steadily and has since established itself as a specialist in tires and automotive service. Since 1974, Vergölst has been part of the Continental Group. Today, around 1,900 employees across Germany generate annual sales of 330 million euros.
Job Description
Join our team at Vergölst GmbH as a (Senior) Area Sales Manager Fleet (m/w/divers) in the region Dresden / Erfurt / Halle / Leipzig!
For our Eastern sales territory, we are looking for a committed (Senior) Area Sales Manager Fleet (m/w/d) as soon as possible, who will competently support our key fleet customers and develop new business potential.
- Ongoing acquisition and management of key accounts throughout the sales territory, including end consumers, branch companies, corporate headquarters and subsidiaries
- Building long-term customer relationships with a focus on marketing Group products
- Conducting and evaluating fleet checks and providing technical support for customer fleets in close coordination with Continental
- Monitoring planning targets, contribution margins and sales developments to ensure target achievement
- Responsibility for compliance with credit limits and receivables management in the assigned customer area
- Ensuring collaboration with departments, regions and central functions through continuous information exchange
Qualifications
- Completed commercial or technical training or comparable qualification
- Several years of field sales experience, preferably in the tire, automotive or fleet industry
- Detailed industry knowledge desirable
- Experience in customer contact
- Basic IT skills and affinity for various IT applications
- Fluent German and very good English skills
- Negotiation skills and confident presence with customers
- Entrepreneurial thinking, assertiveness, communication skills
- Structured and organizational skills as well as strong teamwork
- Driver's license class B
- Place of residence within the sales territory desirable
Applications from severely disabled persons are welcome.
Additional Information
- Attractive pay: You will receive a salary based on the company collective agreement, including annual collectively agreed bonus and holiday pay – transparent, fair and future-proof.
- Performance pays off: In addition to your base salary, you can expect an attractive variable compensation that rewards your success.
- Flexible working: Benefit from a monthly home office allowance for working from home.
- Mobile on the go: You will receive a company car so you can reach your customer appointments flexibly and comfortably.
- Flexibility that fits your life: The position is generally planned as full-time. At the same time, we are open to individual part-time arrangements, provided they are compatible with the requirements of the role. With flexible working hours, mobile working and sabbaticals, we will find a working model together that suits you.
- Recovery time that really counts: Look forward to 30 days of paid vacation per year.
- Securing the future: With our company pension scheme, we invest today in your financial security for tomorrow.
- Career with perspective: We support you in actively driving your own career with individual training offers, access to learning platforms such as LinkedIn Learning and diverse opportunities for advancement.
- Special conditions for employees: Benefit from attractive discounts and a wide range of employee benefits.
- Staying fit – across Germany: With our wide range of health-promoting measures, you stay active – wherever you are, via Hansefit.
- Sustainable mobility: Use our JobRad leasing and secure your dream bike at favorable conditions – for more fitness, climate protection and enjoyment of your daily commute to work.
- Support when it matters: The Fürstenberg Institut offers you a confidential external contact person – for professional advice and support with private as well as professional challenges.
- A work environment that lives diversity: Look forward to a diverse and international environment.
For more information about the employee benefits you can expect at Continental, see here. If you would like to learn more about our location, feel free to visit our location page: Hannover Headquarters
Diversity, inclusion and belonging are important to us and make us a strong and successful company. We offer equal opportunities to all – regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural origin, disability, religion, worldview or sexual orientation.
If this is a perfect fit for you and you identify with our core values (Trust, Connection, Freedom and Winning Mindset), we look forward to your application.
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