Wapro AB continues its international growth journey and is now seeking a driven Export Area Manager who wants to strengthen the company's presence in global markets. Wapro is a leading player in flood protection and flow regulation, characterized by innovation, high quality, and strong customer focus. We offer a role as Export Area Manager where independence and relationship-building are combined with day-to-day sales work in a culture marked by a family-like feeling, teamwork, courage, and drive.
Welcome to contribute to Wapro's continued global expansion!
Your Responsibilities
As Export Sales Manager, you will be a central part of the company's global growth together with colleagues and established sales companies in the USA, Germany, England, and Denmark. You will work with both existing distributors as well as build up new potential markets such as India, parts of Asia, South America, and others. Your responsibility and duties include:
* Develop and maintain existing international resellers
* Identify and establish new partners in markets where Wapro is not yet established
* Drive the entire sales process – from contact and quotation to follow-up and closing including:
- Create action and activity plans together with distributors' responsible contacts
- Develop sales budgets and KPI follow-up with reseller contacts
- Product training for both new and existing resellers
- Conduct joint customer visits together with resellers
* Participate in international and national trade fairs and customer visits
* Follow up on CRM and ensure that all customers and business opportunities are handled in a structured manner
You will work closely with colleagues in sales, customer service, and technical support.
Your Profile
We are looking for someone who is curious about an international sales challenge and has experience in B2B sales with an international focus. We believe and hope you bring the following:
* Experience establishing new customers in export markets
* Experience with complex value selling or work in the public sector internationally is a merit
* If you are not working in the field today, you are an experienced and driven inside sales professional with international experience curious about the next step in your career
* Structured and solution-oriented working approach with the ability to create order and momentum
* Good analytical ability and experience in following up results and KPIs
* Fluent English; additional languages are a merit, preferably Spanish
As a person, you are unpretentious but confident, action-oriented, and relationship-building. You are passionate about understanding customer needs and turning opportunities into sales. You enjoy building long-term collaborations, creating structure, and driving results. The role requires initiative, proactivity, and a high degree of business acumen where you can move between broader sales strategies and operational issues.
Additional Information
* Work Location: Karlshamn
* Travel: Approximately 50 travel days/year to global markets
* Start: By agreement
* Duration: Permanent
* Working Hours: Full-time, daytime
* Salary: Individual salary setting
In this recruitment, Wapro AB is collaborating with Maxkompetens. For questions about the position, contact the responsible Recruitment Consultant at 076-555 83 80 or via [email protected]. Applications are received via our website www.maxkompetens.se. The deadline for applications is August 31, 2026. Applications via email are not accepted due to GDPR.
About Maxkompetens
At Maxkompetens, we match people with opportunities. We are a comprehensive partner in recruitment, staffing, and HR support. Since 2003, we have helped over 26,000 people take the next step in their working lives – from first job to next career level.
We collaborate annually with 150 companies throughout Sweden, primarily within industry, technology & IT, warehouse & logistics, construction & real estate, and finance & accounting. We specialize in finding the right competence and personality for the right opportunity.
Maxkompetens has regional offices in Stockholm, Växjö, and Kristianstad and is an authorized recruitment and staffing company with collective agreements, insurance, wellness benefits, and occupational pension.
About the Client
Wapro, headquartered in Karlshamn, is a company specializing in flood protection and flow regulation for wastewater and stormwater in the Environmental and Aquaculture segments. Wapro has developed several unique products to secure water flows, prevent flooding, and create flow control. Wapro has manufacturing in Karlshamn, Sweden and Otterup, Denmark, where we develop, manufacture, and market the products. The primary end customers are municipalities and municipal water and wastewater companies, which are served directly through own companies in Sweden, the USA, Denmark, England, and Germany and through partners in about 20 countries worldwide. International sales account for approximately 80% of revenue.
Today we have a total of 50 employees in the company, approximately 20 in the Swedish part. Everyone in the organization works with great commitment and maintains a positive atmosphere that we value highly. Wapro and its products are well-known in the market, represent significant know-how, and aim to deliver security to our customers.
Wapro is part of Lagercrantz Group, a value-creating technology group within B2B. The Lagercrantz Group consists of approximately 85 companies.Wapro AB continues its international growth journey and is now seeking a driven Export Area Manager who wants to strengthen the company's presence in global markets. Wapro is a leading player in flood protection and flow regulation, characterized by innovation, high quality, and strong customer focus. We offer a role as Export Area Manager where independence and relationship-building are combined with day-to-day sales work in a culture marked by a family-like feeling, teamwork, courage, and drive.
Welcome to contribute to Wapro's continued global expansion!
Your Responsibilities
As Export…