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Business Development Executive (fluent in German or French)

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on acquiring new clients for Machinio.com, directly contributing to the company's growth. You will engage with business owners and service providers across Europe, turning opportunities into long-term partnerships. The position is part of a high-performing team in a technology company transforming a significant global industry.

Qualifications

  • Fluent in German or French.
  • Fluent in English.
  • Preferred: Highly competitive and driven to meet goals.
  • Preferred: Ability to build trust and engage in conversations with prospects.
  • Preferred: Resilient and coachable, with a willingness to improve.

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with business owners, dealers, and service providers across Europe.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, understanding each prospect's business, challenges, and growth opportunities before recommending solutions.
  • Lead consultative sales conversations that create long-term partnerships, and sign dealers and service providers up as Machinio.com members.
  • Consistently meet or exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), activity metrics, sales goals, and quotas.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Relationship Building
  • Negotiation
  • Communication
  • Resilience
  • Curiosity
  • Coaching

About the company

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Machinio

  • E-commerce & Marketplaces
  • SME
  • 51–200
Machinio is the leading global search engine for finding used machinery and equipment. Our comprehensive database contains more active machinery listings than any other website. https://www.machinio.com/system Machineryhost.com is our new all-in-one business software solution providing website creation/hosting, CRM and email marketing all under the same roof! Over 1.2 million+ interested machinery buyers from 190 countries visit Machinio.com each month, making us the #1 online resource for finding machinery. Using our proprietary technology, we connect buyers with thousands of global sellers and accelerate the sale of their second-hand equipment.

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Job description

Candidates for this role must reside in Europe.

The Business Development Executive role at Machinio.com is one of the most impactful positions in our company. Every new customer you bring on strengthens our platform, expands our network, and directly contributes to the growth of our business. This is a high-impact, quota-carrying position focused on acquiring new clients. You will own the process from engagement through closing, turning opportunities into new members who strengthen our platform, expand our network, and directly contribute to our growth. This is a role for someone motivated by results, who takes ownership of their pipeline and is driven to consistently meet and exceed goals.

Machinio is a fast-growing technology company transforming a $400+ billion global industry serving dealers and service providers, an industry that has historically been underserved by technology. We move fast, set high standards, and invest in our people. The pace of learning here is exceptional: the experience you'll gain in your first three months at Machinio is equivalent to what you would gain in a full year elsewhere. If you are ambitious, competitive, and looking to accelerate your career alongside a high-performing team, this could be a great opportunity for you!

Responsibilities:

  • Build relationships with business owners, dealers, and service providers across Europe.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, understanding each prospect's business, challenges, and growth opportunities before recommending solutions.
  • Lead consultative sales conversations that create long-term partnerships, and sign dealers and service providers up as Machinio.com members.
  • Consistently meet or exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), activity metrics, sales goals, and quotas.
  • Collaborate closely with your teammates to continuously improve our process, messaging, and business development.

You could be a fit if:

  • You speak fluent German or French. Fluency in at least one of these languages is required. Please do not apply if you do not meet this requirement.
  • You speak fluent English, fluency is required.
  • You are highly competitive and hate losing.
  • You enjoy talking to people and naturally build trust.
  • You are curious and ask thoughtful questions before offering solutions.
  • You are resilient. You don't get discouraged by hearing "no", and see it as part of the process.
  • You are coachable and constantly looking to improve.

Working With Us:

  • Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in Europe
  • Modern work equipment provided
  • Casual, collaborative, fast-paced work environment and a fun team (we’re cool)!
  • In-person annual team events and really fun parties!
  • Employee milestone program

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary plus an uncapped commission plan
  • Generous paid time off

Our Interview Process:

  • Step 1: Introductory conversation with one of Machinio's executives, Sr. Director of Operations.
  • Step 2: Interview with the team's Team Lead, to dive deeper into the role, expectations, and participate in an evaluation. In this step, compensation is discussed in full detail.
  • Step 3: Final interview with one of Machinio's executives, VP of Sales.

We are efficient decision-makers, and we like to keep our interview process within 2-3 weeks. We are real employees, with long tenures and a deep knowledge of the business, and we work with and manage the job/team for which you are interviewing. We take time to interview and build teams because our people are our most important resource!

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