Area Sales Manager - Italy Milano

Area Sales Manager - Italy
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

We are looking for an a Area Manager based in Milan to oversee the commercial side of the business reporting directly to our Business Development Director.

Founded in 2019, Volta Trucks is a fast-growing clean mobility start-up focusing on developing full-electric commercial vehicle solutions for tomorrow's cities.

Through product and business model innovations, the company's ambition is to bring to market the most sustainable and safest truck.

Volta Trucks is pioneering a new business model by offering the vehicle to logistics operators as part of its Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution.

The suite includes, in addition to the lease of the vehicle, complementary services such as insurance, maintenance, energy infrastructure and supply.

It will enable a frictionless transition to electric vehicle fleets for logistics operators and align incentives to reduce C02 emissions over the entire vehicle lifecycle.

**The Role

To support its ambitions across Italy, Volta Trucks is looking for an Area Sales Manager based in Milan.

You will be trusted in managing and motivating a new but highly ambitious Sales Team to perform to the highest standard.

Reporting directly to the Business Development Director, you will be trusted to produce reports, create and implement new sales leads, keep up with market trends and make sure your team always achieves company targets.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Developing a Sales strategy for Italy to reach sales targets and expand market growth

- Reporting on Italian sales performance to the Business Development Director

- Working closely with all other functions/workstreams to establish customer needs and requirements

- Maintaining a strong and effective sales force by recruiting and training employees to make sure the team is appropriately resourced to deal with growth in sales volume

- Building and maintaining strong long-term relationships with the customer base to establish their short and long term business needs

- Responsibility for providing the sales team with all the necessary tools to close deals effectively and efficiently

- Continually developing and improving the sales process in line with business ambitions, product portfolio and growth

- Leading global communications with other target markets and potential sales opportunities with links to the UK

**Qualifications and Experience

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

- Entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on approach, practical and enthusiastic

- Strong team leadership and interpersonal skills, cross cultural understanding

- Ability to work autonomously in the fast-paced, complex and ambiguous environment of a start-up

- Positive and passionate, good team player

- Fluency in Italian and English is essential.

**What working here will be like**:

- We are a small, fast-growing team so you will have a high degree of ownership and accountability, and you will be directly exposed to all areas of the business.

- We are a start-up, so don't have a lot of structures and processes.

Things change quickly and we acknowledge when we get things wrong and change direction.

- We are a diverse business, from many nationalities and backgrounds.

- We really value our people.

We have a flexible & remote work environment and a great benefits package & pension scheme.

- We are committed to creating a first-class work environment.

Every employee has a voice and we encourage open communication