Area Sales Manager

Over Deprez

Deprez is an innovative Belgian family-owned company specialized in automated handling and transport solutions for the agricultural and post-harvest industry. The company designs, builds and installs tailor-made automation solutions for handling and processing field crops. Customers throughout Europe and North America rely on Deprez for innovative engineering, reliable installations and long-term partnerships.

At this ambitious international family business, you become part of a company where collaboration, trust and long-term partnerships are central. Guided by the company's CARE values —Creativity, Ambition, Respect and Excellence— the team works together to develop smart, sustainable solutions that truly make a difference for customers.

Why Deprez 

Rather than selling standard machinery, you advise customers on solutions that optimize the handling and flow of their crops and harvest. Every project is tailor-made and developed together with customers and internal engineering specialists. As Area Sales Manager, you will have the opportunity to build markets, develop strong customer relationships and play an important role in the growth of the company.

Team

You report directly to the Sales Manager and become part of an experienced commercial team consisting of three Area Sales Managers and five Concept Engineers and a Marketing Manager. Together with the engineering team, you translate customer needs into the right solution and a strong commercial proposal.  

Functie

Profiel

This role is ideal for an international sales professional who enjoys consultative selling and building lasting customer relationships. You are commercially driven without being a traditional "hard seller”. You enjoy understanding customer challenges, asking the right questions and working with colleagues to develop the right solution. You are comfortable with longer sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders.

You recognize yourself in the following qualities: 

• Relationship Builder: You create trust and build sustainable customer partnerships. 
• Consultative Sales Professional: You listen first, analyze customer needs and sell solutions instead of products. 
• International Mindset: You enjoy travelling and working across different cultures. 
• Driven & Determined: You pursue opportunities with energy and stay focused in longer sales cycles.
• Team Player: You believe successful projects are built together and actively collaborate with colleagues across departments.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics or a related field.
• You have 5+ years of international commercial experience in roles such as Key Account Manager, Sales Manager, or Product Manager.
• You have experience with solution selling, consultative sales or project-based sales.
• You have an affinity for agriculture and a keen interest in its markets and developments.
• You communicate fluently in Dutch and English; additional languages are an asset. 

Aanbod

• At Deprez, you join a financially healthy and ambitious family business where people genuinely work together and where innovation drives everything they do.
• An international sales role with significant autonomy and responsibility. 
• A solid onboarding program with extensive product and market training. 
• Close collaboration with highly skilled project teams. 
• A warm, down-to-earth company culture with short communication lines. 
• International exposure through customer visits and trade fairs. 
• A competitive salary package complemented by attractive fringe benefits.

Location

Based at the headquarters in West Flanders, combined with international customer visits.  

Respond 

Deprez exclusively outsourced the recruitment and selection for the Area Sales Manager to CeresRecruitment. More detailed information about the organization can be found at www.deprez.be.  A personality questionnaire is part of the procedure.