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Senior Sales Consultant (m/f/d) — end to end, with a path to Sales Director.

Our first dedicated sales role — and it is cut wider than the title suggests. You own the whole path: from the qualified lead through the opportunity to the signed contract, and then on to the point where the customer you won is genuinely making progress with what we sell. Whoever fills this role is a candidate for the position of Sales Director — and, in time, for a move into the management team.

What you will own

  • Sales across both pillars: Microsoft Cloud (Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, Azure and Entra ID) and Independent Engineering (custom software, web platforms, mobile apps, OpenAI integrations)
  • Our own solutions: our apps on Microsoft Dataverse (educational institutions, associations and chambers, Project & Service Management, Modular ERP, Inter Company), the Teams Integration, E-Invoicing and Sociogram add-ons, and the web apps License Cost Calculator and Devonso
  • The licensing business as a Microsoft licensing partner, together with our licensing advisory
  • Enablement and resources: checking whether the resources a deal needs are actually available, sourcing them and making them ready — a deal only counts once it can be delivered
  • Customer and project success after signature: making sure the lead has become a customer who is satisfied and getting somewhere with what they bought
  • Pipeline, forecast and proposal quality on the same Microsoft stack we build for our customers
  • Co-selling and white-label with partners and with the arades consulting group across their seven target markets

What you bring

  • Several years in consultative B2B sales of business software or IT services, typically five or more
  • A track record of closing complex, multi-stage sales cycles — negotiation and contract design included
  • Confidence in decision-maker conversations at managing-director and IT-leadership level
  • Enough licensing and architecture understanding to qualify and frame cleanly — the technical depth comes from the delivery team
  • The willingness to advise against: we have turned down work more than once because another partner was the better fit
  • Excellent written and spoken German plus confident English — both are a requirement, including in the technical roles; French is a plus for our French-speaking markets
  • Direct customer contact is part of the role: you lead the conversations yourself and do so the way German B2B clients expect — dependable, clear, at eye level
  • An appetite for shaping process, material and routines yourself rather than finding them in place

How the role is cut

How the week splits.

The role is deliberately not limited to meetings inside the sales process. The shares are indicative and shift as we scale.

70–80 %

Sales from qualification to signature

Qualifying leads, pursuing opportunities, building proposals, negotiating and closing complex contracts — enablement included: checking, sourcing and readying the resources so that what you promise can actually be delivered.

15–25 %

Customer and project success

Staying with it after signature: is the project running in the customer’s interest, are they getting somewhere with what they bought, do expectation and delivery match? This role stays on the case instead of handing over and disappearing.

5–10 %

Strategy — growing

Sales strategy, material, routines. As we scale, building a sales team is added, along with structuring adjacent parts of the business so that things run without friction.

Compensation

Three components — base, variable, participation.

Whoever owns revenue should earn from it. This role therefore has a deliberately different compensation model from the other positions.

01 · Fixed

An attractive base salary

A base salary you can live on without speculating on the variable component. We do not believe in models that push the entire risk onto the sales role.

02 · Variable

An excellent variable component

The variable component is deliberately set above average and is not capped. We put the basis of calculation in writing before the contract is signed — traceable and verifiable.

03 · Participation

Company participation once success is demonstrated

Once success has been demonstrated over a jointly agreed period, a company participation package is added. We discuss structure and conditions openly as soon as the role fits on substance.

We discuss concrete figures in the first conversation — together with the basis of calculation for the variable component, so you can do the maths instead of guessing.

What we offer

Sounds like your role?

Send us your CV and two sentences on why this role in particular. We do not need a templated cover letter. If you have questions first, take the 15-minute introductory call.

  • A role with a path: Sales Director, and in the medium term the management team
  • Direct line to the managing director, no layer in between
  • An attractive base salary plus an above-average, uncapped variable component
  • A company participation package once success is demonstrated
  • Hybrid model, office in Offenbach am Main, start as soon as possible

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Application

Apply right here.

Upload your CV, add two sentences on why this role in particular — that is all we need. We do not read templated cover letters anyway.

Documents

PDF, DOC or DOCX · up to 5 MB per file · three files at most

    If the form does not work for you, simply send your documents to karriere@arades.de.

    How the selection process runs

    Four steps from application to contract.

    We deliberately keep it transparent. You know at all times where you stand — and we take the time to really get to know you, rather than filtering by CV checkboxes.

    01 · 30 min

    Preliminary call

    By phone or video — we mutually clarify whether the role fits the person. No test assignments, no HR filter questions. You speak directly with someone from the practitioner team, not with a recruiter.

    02 · 60 min

    Technical interview

    An in-depth conversation about the technical topics of your future role. For Microsoft positions, with a system demo; for Independent Engineering, with a code review of your own work; for the sales role, with a qualification and proposal case from our portfolio.

    03 · 60 min

    Team interview

    You meet the team you would actually work with. We skip stress interviews — we want to see whether the working chemistry fits. Both sides can decline, both sides can raise concerns.

    04 · Contract

    Offer & start

    Within a week of the team interview, you receive our written offer — or an honest rejection with reasons. We agree on the start date together, typically with 4–8 weeks of lead time.

    15-min preliminary call

    Questions before applying?

    Book 15 minutes — we'll tell you honestly whether the role fits you and whether our setup matches your expectations. No application pressure, no follow-up calls you haven't requested.