Export Sales Manager
Employer · Clever Light
Budapest
Clever Light develops and manufactures addressable central emergency lighting systems, exit signs, and safety luminaires in Szolnok. We are looking for an Export Sales Manager who has built a distributor network on the manufacturing side and wants to work in a company where market expansion is truly driven by their efforts.
Tasks
- Distributor network: sourcing, selecting, and contracting new distributors (exclusivity, minimum volume, pricing)
- Joint business planning: developing annual plans, targets, and campaigns with partners, monitoring their performance
- Project closure: negotiating and closing large projects together with distributors
- Market expansion: analyzing target markets, entry strategy, coordinating the business side of local product approvals with the technical team
- International presence: client visits and trade fairs (e.g. Intersec, Light + Building)
- CRM, forecasting, and reporting to company management
Conditions & benefits
Competitive base salary + performance bonusLaptop, phoneBase in Budapest or Szolnok, hybrid working arrangement, with regular international travel
Requirements
- At least 5 years of international B2B sales experience, including at least 3 years building or managing a distributor network on the manufacturing side
- Sales of technical products (electrical industry, lighting, fire and safety engineering, building services, or industrial products)
- Fluent, negotiation-level English — this is the working language
- Willingness to travel abroad regularly, ability to work independently