Global Sales Director – Manufacturing Co-Intelligence (f/m/div.)

Your tasks

• As a Global Sales Director you will define and execute a global sales strategy, positioning us as a category leader in AI-led manufacturing and driving exponential revenue growth.
• You will build, mentor, and empower a world-class direct and indirect sales organization from the ground up, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous development.
• You will institutionalize the Challenger Sales methodology, embedding an insight-led approach that transforms customer engagement and delivers measurable value.
• You will forge and nurture strategic relationships with leading manufacturers, OEMs, and co-sell with technology partners, expanding our market reach and influence.
• You will identify and unlock new market segments and strategic partnerships, accelerating our growth trajectory and enhancing our competitive edge.
• You will ensure predictable revenue performance through robust pipeline management, precise forecasting, and seamless collaboration with Product, Marketing, and customer success teams, while actively shaping company strategy as a member of the leadership team.

Your profile

• Education: completed degree in business administration, engineering or a related field; MBA is an advantage
• Experience and Knowledge: proven track record as a senior sales leader (Director, Vice President or equivalent) in industrial software, manufacturing solutions or AI/IIoT; experience in building and scaling international B2B enterprise sales teams; Expertise in complex B2B sales cycles and frameworks such as Challenger Sales; proven knowledge of manufacturing processes, automation and digital transformation; excellent communication and stakeholder skills, especially at C-level
• Personality and Working Practice: you combine strategic vision with pragmatic implementation, communicating confidently at C-level and building lasting relationships; you define your division’s contribution to overall success, set ambitious goals, and use resources in a targeted manner; you recognize market trends, take transparent risks, and focus on sustainable growth; you provide team members with orientation, encourage their active participation, and highlight their successes; you attract diverse talents, foster team cohesion alongside high performance, and leverage challenges as opportunities for development, consistently demonstrating your role model function
• Work Routine: willingness to travel regionally and internationally (up to 40–50%)
• Enthusiasm: passion for innovative AI and data technologies and their application
• Languages: fluent in written and spoken English; German skills are an advantage

Contact & additional information

We offer flexible working models: from various part-time options to mobile working and job sharing. Feel free to contact us.

Diversity and inclusion are not just trends for us but are firmly anchored in our corporate culture. Therefore, we welcome all applications, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual identity.

Need support during your application?
Recruiting Team (Human Resources)
+49 711 811 27525

Need further information about the job?
Norbert Jung (Business CEO - Hiring Manager)
+49 711 811 29207

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About 15,000 employees from 73 countries work in the different fields of activity at our location in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. This site is rich in tradition and can look back on 100 years of history. Today, a variety of technical and commercial departments, manufacturing, apprenticeship and in-service training are located here as well as various corporate departments and service areas, including the Bosch IT Campus and the Service & Supply Chain Campus.

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Shape the Future of Manufacturing Intelligence

Manufacturing Co-Intelligence is redefining the way factories think, learn and operate.
Our mission is to leverage agentic AI, semantic data management and our deep manufacturing know how to bring the disruptive power of Agentic AI to manufacturing, trustworthy, reliable and easy.

Rooted in Bosch’s century-long manufacturing excellence, we combine deep industrial knowledge with cutting-edge AI technology to help manufacturers reduce cost, become resilient, and sustainability. As we enter a significant growth phase — expanding our market reach internationally, scaling commercial impact, and building a world-class sales go-to-market organization — we are looking for a Global Sales Director to lead this transformation.

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