Sales Executive Packaging Food

Together with 6,900 colleagues worldwide, we are the strategic lifecycle partner for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and food industries. With seamless processes, innovative technologies, and sustainable solutions, we help our customers achieve their goals. Your favorite chocolate and snacks are also sustainably packaged with our help.

Here we develop and produce technologies for a wide range of food and non-food products, including stand-alone machines and system solutions with various process steps from weighing and dosing to vertical bagging, cartoning, case packing, and palletizing.

As Technical Sales Manager for Line Solutions you’ll orchestrate contributions from Syntegon sites to deliver end‑to‑end projects that delight customers. This highly visible, strategic role focuses on long‑term project sales, close customer relationships and strong cross‑functional coordination, requires significant experience in international sales (10–15 years).

You will own the commercial and technical positioning of our Line Solutions portfolio and act as the primary link between regional sales, production sites and customers to secure high‑quality, turnkey solutions.

Develop and grow sales for Syntegon’s seamless line solutions across multiple sites.

Serve as the main contact for regional sales, production and customers to support the Lead‑to‑Order process.

Build application and market knowledge to improve hit rates and reduce project risk.

Promote innovations and sales tools to standardize best practice and empower front‑line teams.

You’ll lead the commercial phases of line projects, provide on‑site and regional support, and shape go‑to‑market positioning to maximize success.

Act as a reliable technical and commercial partner for production sites, sales offices and customers on line projects.

Drive global line project sales to achieve targets and manage program risks.

Guide regional sales toward ideal opportunities (the “sweet spots”) to improve conversion.

Initiate and lead development of practical sales tools, playbooks and application innovations.

This highly visible, strategic role focuses on long‑term project sales, close customer relationships and strong cross‑functional coordination, and requires significant experience in international sales (10–15 years). Fluency in German and English is required; French and Spanish are a plus.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering (or commercial degree with demonstrable technical affinity) and strong project sales skills.

• 10–15 years’ experience in international B2B project/line sales, ideally in food packaging, automation or capital equipment.
• Proven track record in managing complex, multi‑site projects and driving long‑term commercial relationships.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken); French and Spanish are advantageous.
• Excellent customer focus and communication skills, with an entrepreneurial commercial attitude.
• Be part of and determine the path to grow the line project sales within the Business Unit Food Vertical