ESS Technical Sales Manager - France ESS Technical Sales Manager - France Sungrow Hybrid · Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR · Paris, IDF, FR about 2 hours ago Energy Buildings

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Job Description

Your mission

Bonjour et bienvenue chez Sungrow France! We are excited to welcome a Technical Sales Manager who connects our PV and energy storage solutions with the needs of customers across the French market. You will combine strong technical expertise with commercial ownership, helping shape the local product strategy and turning customer insights into successful solutions. Curious? Let’s dive in:

• Act as the technical and commercial point of contact for customers, including EPCs, developers, investors, installers, and technical advisors.
• Provide pre-sales support, including solution design, product selection, technical presentations, and clarification of customer requirements.
• Translate French market needs, customer feedback, and competitive insights into clear recommendations for Product Management and global teams.
• Support the introduction, positioning, and lifecycle management of Sungrow PV and ESS products in France.
• Deliver product training, workshops, and technical enablement sessions for customers, partners, and internal sales teams.
• Monitor market trends, regulations, competitor activity, and commercial opportunities to support sales strategy and forecasting.

Your profile

Sounds like a meaningful challenge, right? To feel confident and successful in this role, your background could look like this:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Renewable Energy, or a comparable technical field.
• Several years of experience in technical sales, product management, pre-sales, business development, or project development within PV, ESS, power electronics, or renewable energy.
• Strong understanding of solar inverters, battery energy storage systems, and customer applications in utility-scale and commercial and industrial environments.
• Ability to combine technical detail with commercial thinking and communicate complex solutions clearly to different stakeholder groups.
• Experience gathering market intelligence, analysing competitor solutions, and turning insights into practical product or sales recommendations.
• French and English at C1 level; additional European languages or Mandarin are a plus.
• Confident use of Microsoft Office and CRM tools, with a structured, proactive, and customer-focused working style.
• Willingness to travel regularly within France and occasionally across Europe.

Why us?

You will join Sungrow France’s Sales and Product team, where technical expertise directly supports customers in accelerating the energy transition. This role offers the chance to influence how our PV and energy storage portfolio is positioned in one of Europe’s most important renewable energy markets.

You will work closely with local commercial teams, European product specialists, and global R&D colleagues, making sure real customer needs shape future solutions. Expect an international, collaborative environment, meaningful technical and commercial development, and the opportunity to make a visible impact on clean power in France.

The sun is the solution to most of our energy challenges. The ability to harvest solar power and deliver it where and when it is needed exists. We just need to start using it. Sungrow's cutting-edge technology for residential, commercial and large-scale energy generation plants utilizes state-of-the-art PV power generation ...