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 more than 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/d) in the Dresden / Erfurt / Halle / Leipzig region!
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 accounts and develop new business opportunities.
- Ongoing acquisition and management of key accounts throughout the sales territory, including end consumers, multi-branch companies, group 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 development to ensure goal 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 a variety of IT applications
- Business-fluent German and very good English skills
- Negotiation skills and confident presence with customers
- Entrepreneurial mindset, assertiveness, communication skills
- Structured and organizational skills as well as strong teamwork abilities
- Driver's license class B
- 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: Through our company pension scheme, we invest today in your financial security of tomorrow.
- Career with perspective: We support you in actively driving your own career forward 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 broad 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 on favorable terms – for more fitness, climate protection and enjoyment of your daily commute to work.
- Support when it matters: The Fürstenberg Institut is available to you as a confidential external contact – 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.
Further information on the employee benefits you can expect at Continental can be found here. If you want 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 everyone – 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, Connectedness, Freedom and Winning Mentality), we look forward to your application.
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