sales manager – delft

About This Role
We are looking for a Sales Manager to join our Delft team in the Netherlands. The role involves essential business travel on occasion to meet with customers, partners and participate at relevant events.

This role is responsible for driving sales of AAC Clyde Space's Space Products portfolio by managing the sales pipeline, developing customer relationships, and supporting business development activities. The Sales Manager will be responsible for identifying opportunities, qualifying leads, and closing deals while contributing to long-term growth through proactive market engagement.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who is passionate about space, with a technical background and with previous experience in the sales function, part of a high-technology company developing products. You will also enjoy networking with customers, committed to delivering sales targets and working in a dynamic, fast paced working environment with exciting projects and challenging schedules.

It is an exciting opportunity to be part of a Group where our work literally ends up in space

Key Responsibilities

• Drive sales to generate, qualify and close needs in line with business priorities
• Manage the full sales cycle for Space Products, from lead qualification to closing.
• Respond to and follow up on inbound enquiries, preparing quotations and commercial proposals.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers across commercial, institutional, and government sectors.
• Support business development initiatives by identifying new markets, partners, and opportunities.
• Provide customer feedback and market intelligence to internal teams to inform product development and strategic planning.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to ensure customer requirements are clearly understood and addressed.
• Track and update sales pipeline activity, ensuring CRM accuracy and effective reporting.
• Contribute to upselling and cross-selling activities across the company's product and service portfolio.

Skills Required

• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience in technical sales, account management, or business development
• Proven track record of building long-term customer relationships and closing commercial opportunities.
• Experience preparing quotations and supporting proposal activities.
• Passion for the space industry and emerging technologies.
• Ability to network and generate opportunities
• Evidence of commercial awareness and customer-focused thinking to deliver excellent customer service
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into clear value propositions.
• Collaborating effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment with multiple priorities.
• Maintain accountability for your work while contributing to a supportive and inclusive team culture.
• Proficient IT skills, including Microsoft Office Suite and CRM tool
• Proficient in English, written and verbal.

Skills Desired

• Previous experience in the space industry or other high-technology company
• Previous experience in working with small/medium sized company

About Aac Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space, a leading New Space company, specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.

Our Growing Capabilities Bring Together Three Divisions

• Space Data as a Service – delivering data from space directly to customers
• Space missions – turnkey solutions that empower customers to streamline their space missions
• Space products and components – a full range of off-the-shelf and tailor-made subsystems, components, and sensors

AAC Clyde Space aims to become a world leader in commercial small satellites and services from space, applying advances in its technology to tackle global challenges and improve our life on Earth.

Some of our clients include Horizon Technologies, Orbcomm, OHB Sweden, Intuitive Machines, Orbital Micro Systems, the United States Airforce Academy, UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and NASA.

AAC Clyde Space Group consists of the parent company AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) and subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. Our main operations are in these five countries, with partner networks in Japan and South Korea.

AAC Clyde Space's share is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.

Data Protection Policy
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Right to Work
AAC Clyde Space has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the legal right to live and work in the EU or the country in which they plan to work. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to AAC Clyde Space verifying that you are eligible to work in that country before you start work.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We aim to create a positive recruitment and selection experience across every part of our business. The company is committed to handling applications to a consistently high standard and all candidates with dignity and respect. Those involved in the recruitment and selection process will act with integrity, objectivity and professionalism. We are committed to equal opportunities for all and to have diversity reflected within our global workforce. We believe its diversity and inclusion will allow for greater creativity and innovation to help AAC Clyde Space Group deliver the vision to help improve life on earth.

Openness to Flexible Working
We recognise work-life balance is important so we are open to discussions around flexible working, depending on the nature of the role and business needs. If you would like to know more, please ask the Hiring Manager during any recruitment process that you may be involved in.