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Deadline Nov 2

Key Account Developer

Posted Oct 14 (7 days ago) · Last updated Oct 20

Key facts

Lead strategic B2B accounts at Merima; requires Finnish and English fluency and international travel.

Where and how
FinlandOnsiteSenior
Field
Sales
Languages required
Finnish, English

Original job ad

As published by Merima Oy

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We don’t just win projects. We make better solutions possible. The world’s most demanding shipbuilding projects do not need just more suppliers. They need people who see opportunities where others see limitations. People who dare to ask better questions, challenge conventional thinking, and create solutions that deliver genuine value to the customer’s business. Do you recognize yourself? Great! Your mission is making a difference before the project even begins. At Merima, we believe the best projects do not start with a quotation. They start with understanding what the customer is truly trying to achieve and finding the best way to get there together. As a Key Account Developer, you will drive the growth and commercial success of strategic customer accounts. You will help our customers identify new opportunities, make better investment decisions, and build successful projects. You will lead complex sales initiatives from opportunity identification through negotiations and long-term agreements. In this role, you will: - See beyond the request. Understand your customers’ business and decision-making processes, identify new opportunities, and develop strategic accounts with a long-term perspective. - Challenge what is possible. Question established solutions and help customers make better decisions by introducing new perspectives and alternatives. - Turn opportunities into profitable growth. Expand the business potential of key accounts and lead significant sales opportunities, negotiations, and contracts in a profitable manner. - Bring the best of Merima together. Connect Merima’s experts and capabilities around the customer’s objectives and ensure the best solutions are created through collaboration. - Build relationships that last. Build trust, influence customer decision-making, and develop partnerships whose value continues to grow from project to project. Your success will not be measured only by projects won, but by the value we create together with our customers. Could you be one of us? We are looking for a commercially minded professional who sees beyond individual projects and knows how to make things happen. You have experience in demanding B2B solution and value-based sales, strategic account development, and managing significant commercial opportunities. You know how to influence customer decision-making, build relationships with senior executives, and negotiate agreements that balance customer value, risk management, and profitable business outcomes. You can lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries and leverage customer insights, market intelligence, and data to drive commercial decision-making. You are curious, willing to challenge constructively, and ambitious in delivering results. You take ownership, keep your promises, and understand that meaningful success is never achieved alone. The role requires a relevant commercial or technical education, fluency in Finnish and English, and willingness to travel internationally. What’s in it for you? Real challenges, responsibilities and impact. Merima is growing and evolving. We are continuously developing our international business, our offering, and the way we create value for customers and partners. You will have the opportunity to influence strategic customer relationships, commercial success, and the future direction of Merima. You will be supported by strong technical and commercial expertise, an international operating environment, and the freedom to grow and continuously improve the way we work. The Merima Experience is not just a promise to our customers. It’s how we work with each other. Our values, We Take Care, We Own It Together, We Keep Raising the Bar, are visible in everything we do, every day. Ready to raise the bar? We do not only want to hear where you have worked. We want to hear whose thinking you have successfully changed, what new value you created, and why it mattered. Please submit your application and CV by 2.11.2026. We will review applications throughout the application period. For more information about the role, please contact CCO Teija Sipilä (teija.sipila@merima.fi). About Merima We are a global growth company operating in shipbuilding and refurbishment projects worldwide. We are known for our practical and solution-oriented approach to delivering demanding interior fit-out projects. We support our customers from the design phase through project execution and continue to serve them with maintenance and spare parts services throughout the operational lifecycle. We transform plans and technical requirements into practical, buildable solutions where functionality, construction methods, materials, and cost-efficiency come together in balance. For our customers, the Merima way of working means clearer decision-making, more predictable project delivery, fewer surprises, and end results that support both business objectives and passenger experience.

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About the role

Summarised by JobCrawls from the job ad above.

Requirements

  • Experience in demanding B2B solution and value-based sales
  • Experience in strategic account development
  • Experience managing significant commercial opportunities
  • Ability to influence customer decision-making and build relationships with senior executives
  • Negotiation skills balancing customer value, risk management and profitable outcomes
  • Ability to lead complex cross-organisational initiatives
  • Ability to use customer insights, market intelligence and data in commercial decisions
  • Relevant commercial or technical education
  • Fluency in Finnish and English
  • Willingness to travel internationally
  • Curiosity, constructive challenge, ambition, ownership, reliability and collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Drive growth and commercial success in strategic customer accounts
  • Identify customer opportunities and support better investment decisions
  • Lead complex sales initiatives from opportunity identification through negotiations and long-term agreements
  • Develop strategic accounts with a long-term perspective
  • Expand key-account business potential and lead profitable sales opportunities, negotiations and contracts
  • Bring Merima experts and capabilities together around customer objectives
  • Build trust, influence customer decisions and develop lasting partnerships
  • Use customer insight, market intelligence and data to guide commercial decisions

Skills & technologies

B2B Solution SalesValue-based SalesStrategic Account DevelopmentCommercial NegotiationsRisk ManagementMarket IntelligenceCustomer InsightsData-driven Decision-making

Benefits & perks

Recruitment process

  1. Submit an application and CV by 2 November 2026; applications are reviewed throughout the application period.
  2. Contact CCO Teija Sipilä for further information.

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About Merima Oy

Financial overview
€100.2M
Revenue
€22.4M
Profit
22.0%
Profit margin
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Merima Oy · 2 open roles
Top locations (all time): Turku, Finland · 2 · Finland · 1 · Papenburg, Germany · 1 · +1 other locations
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About the employer

Merima is a global growth company operating in shipbuilding and refurbishment projects. It delivers demanding interior fit-out projects and supports customers from design through execution, with maintenance and spare parts over the operational lifecycle.

Core values
We Take CareWe Own It TogetherWe Keep Raising the Bar

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