About this role
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/lMz06jD9MsY">Vaisala</a> is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. For a second year running, Vaisala got recognized in TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2026 study. Our team of close to 2,500 experts and 62 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.</p> <ul> <li><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">We take every measure for the planet.</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Our technology and data play a vital role in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. We enable climate action from optimizing industrial processes to advancing the energy transition, predicting hurricanes and wildfires to monitoring road conditions.</span></li> <li><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Numbers speak louder than words</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">. The engagement (4.0/5) and leadership (4.0/5) indexes in our annual employee survey show that people like it here. Commitment to equality is a given, and we have zero gender-pay gap.</span></li> <li><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">When stakes are high.</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Our solutions provide the most accurate and reliable measurements around the globe and on Mars. 28% of us work in R&D creating scien</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">ce-based innovations that endure the extremes. To stay ahead of the game, we invest around 12 % of our net sales in research and development. </span></li> </ul><p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Sales Managers, APAC</strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to join our Industrial Measurements Sales organization.Your primary responsibility in this role is to develop our channel partner network in a selection of countries in the South East Asia Region for our broad <strong>industrial measurement instruments offering which includes high-end humidity, high-end carbon dioxide measurement</strong> instruments and <strong>Continuous Monitoring System</strong> for Life Sciences Industry. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You will personally drive profitable sales growth by executing sales actions. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You will report to the Director, Other - APAC. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The ideal candidate should have at least 10 years’ experience sales experience in distributor management, instrument sales and preferably having experience in the HVAC and/or Life Science industries. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The position is primarily located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Key responsibilities:</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Developing individual country sales plan in consultation with all the relevant stakeholders to achieve a sustainable market across our existing and new industrial offering. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Manage direct sales to key customers. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Channel Partner Development and Management which includes</span> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working with and managing distributors to ensure sales targets are achieved. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Monitoring performance of existing distributors, sales and marketing campaigns.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Analyzing new markets and seeking out suitable distributor candidates.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Organizing regular distributor trainings to ensure product knowledge stays up to date. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Supporting distributors on sales cases by providing timely response to technical and pricing queries. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Developing sales tools for distributors.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 30.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Joint customer visits with distributors. </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Communicating market requirements back to product management teams</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Defining and agreeing on marketing actions with marketing and business management.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Business performance reporting for your area of responsibility and Internal meetings with your supervisor and/or product management team.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 36.0pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;line-height:107%"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Qualifications:</span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">B.Sc. or M.Sc. (or equivalent) in Engineering (Preferably Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical)</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience in international sales and channel management</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Basic IT (networking) knowledge</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience is both instrument sales as well as project sales.</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Willingness to travel (40% to 60%)</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Negotiation and influencing skills</span></li> <li style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Fluency in English is mandatory </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You are competitive and result oriented and have at least 10 years’ experience in distributor sales management, instrument sales as well as project sales. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You have strong communication skills and is able to work with people from different cultures and you are an energetic team player. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You are also a forward-looking strategic thinker with focus on the customers.</span></p><p>Please submit your application by 31st August by completing the online application form.</p>