Commercial Product Specialist Maassluis • Lely

Are you a strong communicator who can translate products into solutions? Do you enjoy supporting our global sales organization, delivering sales training, and developing support materials? And are you great at conveying a clear message to others? Then keep reading!

Your role:

The Proposition Management department aligns the entire product portfolio with market needs, acting as a vital link between the distribution channel, support departments, and R&D.

As a Commercial Product Specialist Manure, you’ll join an international team passionate about the Lely Manure portfolio, which includes the  Lely Sphere and the  Lely Discovery Collector. You will connect the cow, the farmer, and the solution—ensuring commercial goals are achieved in collaboration with the Product Manager.

Main responsibilities:

• Engage in the entire product lifecycle: from identifying market and customer needs to defining development assignments and launching new products.
• Contribute to development assignments and support with product phase-in and phase-out processes.
• Provide active commercial and training support to our global organization.
• Collaborate with the sales organization to develop both online and offline sales support materials.
• Develop and deliver online and offline trainings in cooperation with our Learning Specialists to strengthen product knowledge.

• A completed bachelor’s degree in a commercial or business-related field, with relevant experience gained in a comparable role where you worked in a project-based manner. Affinity with international dairy farming and a keen interest in technology is an advantage.
• Commercially minded: able to engage effectively with people in an international setting, persuasive, and strong in written communication.
• Communicative: you are able to communicate clearly and effectively, skilled in stakeholder management, which enables you to view matters from another’s perspective while also not being afraid to say no when necessary. In addition to fluent English, you preferably speak a second European language.
• Enjoys working with various IT support tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Tableau, Salesforce, and Showpad, and knows how to leverage these in developing sales materials.
• Independent and result-oriented, with a positive mindset and the ability to plan ahead. Open to feedback and sees it as an opportunity to improve. Reliable, tolerant, and determined are characteristics that describe you well.
• Currently living in the Netherlands with a valid work permit

In an international work environment driven by innovation, there are plenty of challenges and growth opportunities. Moreover, we offer you:

• An enthusiastic team that is collectively dedicated to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for the agricultural sector.
• Open and informal atmosphere.
• Excellent employment conditions, including 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days.
• A full-time salary scale ranging from € 3.900 and € 4.900,- gross per month.
• Flexible working hours.
• Freedom and independence in organizing your own work.
• The possibility to sell 6 roster-free days per year.
• Contribution to various insurance premiums.
• Our Lely Academy with a range of different courses.
• The Lely Gym where you can work on your physical and mental health free of charge.
• A dynamic role with plenty of room for your own initiative and input.

Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or secondment agency? We appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.

A sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotics, engineering, and farming expertise. That's what we believe in.

It all began 75 years ago with a dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Since then, we have been an innovative leader in automated systems for dairy farmers worldwide. With 2,400 specialized professionals, we constantly strive towards new agricultural revolutions. We operate not only from our Campus in Maassluis (the building with the highest sustainability performance in the Netherlands) but also from other international locations. Together, our aim is to make dairy farming interesting for the next generation.