A skilled technical sales and business development professional with more than 12 years’ experience selling specialist industrial systems and equipment to diverse industry sectors. My ability to immerse myself into a business and ascertain key opportunities and challenges enables me to create not only long term strategic relationships but also ensure strong bottom-line growth within diverse and challenging geographies. My attention to detail, planning, excellent business relationships with clientele and suppliers across all levels, forms a solid foundation for my operational capabilities and business development successes.INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE✔Food Industry✔Bottling plants✔Pharmaceutical manufacturers & packaging✔OEM customers for box erectors, packaging or process machinery✔Dairy industry✔Injection mould machinery✔Carton manufacturers✔Electronics manufacturing✔Mining Industry✔Motorised Vessel✔Car projectsRECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS►►►New area sales growth: SMC PneumaticsCurrent growth in the year to date sales of ZAR500k in a newly allocated area including Johannesburg West, Rustenburg & Brits. The area mainly includes customers from car projects, life science, food and packaging industry, as well as the electronics and mining industries. After one year managing the area, figures showed strategy for the first year paid off, and I achieved the best growth in 4 years for the area.►►►Customer conversion: SMC PneumaticsConverted machine-building customers who were previously using a competitor through cross-referencing and concentrating on individual sales strategy by providing the customers with strategic solutions. Provided a glue manufacturer, who had spillage in their manufacturing line, causing a specific failure, with a scraper seal on the unit, saving the customer significant downtime hours and resulted in higher production ratios.-----------------------------------------------Available for opportunities in the Netherlands.Contact on derick.westerhuis@gmail.com-----------------------------------------------