Proposition Manager

As Proposition Manager, you hold a key position at the heart of one of our Lely Clusters. You translate Lely’s global vision into local commercial success, ensuring that our innovative solutions genuinely make a difference on dairy farms every day. Together with your multidisciplinary team, you bring Lely’s propositions to life: from milking and feeding to data and service excellence.

You act as the bridge between Lely International and the Lely Centers in your region, aligning strategic goals with market execution. In doing so, you make sure that our network of Lely Centers is well-equipped to serve dairy farmers in the best possible way, both today and in the future.

This position combines strategic leadership, commercial responsibility, and team development. You will lead a team of Commercial Product Specialists, Technical Service Support and Farm Management Support professionals, and marketing experts. Together, you ensure that every Lely proposition is implemented successfully, that customer satisfaction grows, and that our centers perform to the highest standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Translate Lely’s international strategy into a local commercial plan and deliver on sales, service, and support targets for your proposition.
• Lead, coach, and develop your multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and excellence.
• Ensure successful implementation of propositions in the Lely Centers, from product launch to market adoption and customer support.
• Strengthen Lely Center performance and customer relationships.
• Contribute to strategic planning for the cluster and the 5-year roadmap for your proposition.
• Represent the Business Team in the Cluster Management Team, ensuring alignment with other propositions and cluster priorities.
  
  

You are a driven and strategic professional who thrives in a dynamic, international environment. With a strong commercial and technical background, you understand how to translate complex market needs into successful propositions. You are a natural leader who knows how to motivate a team, build partnerships, and deliver results.

You Bring The Following

• Proven experience in commercial management, business development, or proposition leadership within an international B2B environment.

Strong analytical and business acumen, with a track record of achieving commercial goals.

Ability to lead and coach multidisciplinary teams.

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Affinity with the dairy farming or agricultural technology sector is highly valued.

Good Communicator

Good influencing skills

Good presentation skills

Good I.T. and Microsoft office skills

Good co-ordination and organisation skills

Good analytical skills

Mobile Requirements (requirement For National/international Travel)

• Must hold clean, valid driving license
• Flexible and able to travel often
• Must hold a valid passport
  
  

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties to be performed by the employee and may be altered to reflect the business needs of the company.

• Location - Home/Field Based – Must be able visit the office when required
• Hours - 37.5 hours per week
  
  

Benefits

Competitive Salary/Car Allowance/26 days holiday + bank holiday, holiday increases with length of service to a maximum of 31 days per year/Company doubles employees’ pension contribution to a max 12%/Employee event days/Wellness and Wellbeing support/Free lunch provided in the office every Wednesday/

At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise. It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis (the Netherlands) more than 75 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 2,500 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring revolutionary solutions for the dairy industry.

Lely is an international family-owned business that operates through a strong international structure. From our headquarters in Maassluis, the Netherlands, we manage nine regional clusters, each responsible for coordinating activities across a group of countries. Within these clusters, we collaborate with more than 200 Lely Centers (Franchises) around the world. These Lely Centers are Lely´s route to the market. Some are independently run franchise partners, others are fully owned by Lely. The Lely-owned Centers reflect our long-term commitment to the region and our belief in developing scalable, high-quality operations in-house.