Assistant Sales Manager

Posted on November 21, 2025
Dusseldorf
Posted on November 21, 2025

About this role

A well-known Japanese trading house is currently recruiting an Assistant Sales Manager to work in their Düsseldorf office.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing sales and marketing activities to customers and/or suppliers, developing new business opportunities, and maintaining long-term relationships within the import and export trading business for machinery.

The ideal candidate should have experience in import/export trading, strong communication skills, and technical knowledge of machinery.

Business level of English and German is mandatory.

Main Responsibilities

  • Managing sales and marketing activities to customers and/or suppliers based on their portfolios with growing track record
  • Building and maintaining long term relationship with customers and/or suppliers at all levels
  • Proactively developing new business opportunities in responsibility area
  • Identifying business opportunities, initialising contacts with new customers and/or suppliers
  • Providing technical product information via suppliers and promoting those kinds of products to potential customers
  • Reporting effectively to management verbally and in writing

Ideal Candidate

  • Qualified in international trading business (import & export) and has at least 3 years of job experience in this field
  • Experience in managing customers and business in wider range and proactively developing new business opportunities
  • Substantial knowledge of products, equipment and solutions related to section strategy
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel & Word skills
  • Advanced knowledge of Japanese language, coming from experience of working in a Japanese company would be advantageous
  • Business level fluency in English and German

All applicants for the Assistant Sales Manager must have the right to work in the country as the Company is not able to offer visa support.

We regret that we cannot accept applications from Working holiday visa, Graduate or Student visa holders.

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