Industrial, distribution & logistics · Ferry freight and logistics
DFDS
About DFDS
What DFDS salespeople mostly sell is freight capacity: trailer space on its ferries, full and part loads by road, groupage, cold chain and special cargo, pitched to shippers and their procurement teams. The openings sit with country units rather than product lines, so DFDS Logistics in Hamburg-Harburg and Nijmegen, DFDS Belgium (which also covers the Hauts-de-France region from Calais) and the UK commercial team each recruit their own field reps, inside sellers and account managers. Hamburg has four of the seats: a head of sales who would coach a team of three and own German dry freight forecasts and targets, plus three sales executive jobs (field, inside, and a hybrid of the two) that prospect, cost and quote lanes, answer tenders and close; Nijmegen splits the same way into a buitendienst field role and a binnendienst inside role for its premium cold chain, while Immingham wants a part loads developer to grow UK export groupage with heavy travel around the country. The passenger side has a single seller, a junior global sales manager in IJmuiden who keeps a book of small and mid-sized travel trade accounts (travel agents, coach operators, MICE organisers and tour operators) across the Netherlands and Flemish Belgium. Of 135 postings, 11 carry sales titles, all in Europe: five in Germany (one of them a sales support desk at Ekol in Gernsheim, a logistics business now part of DFDS), three in the Netherlands and one each in Belgium, France and England.
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DFDS sales openings
Board read 2 Nov 2026, 21:08 UTCHead of Sales (m/w/d) (shows the role here)
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DFDS as an employer
Copenhagen-listed ferry and logistics group of about 15,000 staff whose sales hiring is freight account work in its German, Benelux, French and UK units. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
10 sales openings on its careers board right now10 sales openings at DFDS, as its own board showed them 2 Nov 2026.
Salaried seats, with a performance bonus in Germany, full or part time in Hamburg and 32 to 40 hours a week in Nijmegen, a pension scheme in the Netherlands and up to three free trips a year on DFDS ships for the Dutch staff.
No US openings: Hamburg (four) and Gernsheim in Germany, Nijmegen (two) and IJmuiden in the Netherlands, Gent in Belgium, Calais in France and Immingham in England.
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- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at DFDS
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30
Only one of its 11 sales postings prints a figure: €45,000 to €52,000 a year for the Calais sales manager who looks after strategic accounts in Hauts-de-France. The German roles promise a market-rate package with a performance bonus scheme and a benefit card loaded with a monthly net credit, the Dutch roles a salary plus 8.33% holiday allowance and a lease car (optional for the Nijmegen field rep, included for the IJmuiden travel trade seller), and the Gent account manager a market wage with Belgian extras such as meal vouchers, hospitalisation and group insurance. None names an OTE, a commission rate or a split between base and variable.
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Is DFDS a good company to sell for?
Copenhagen-listed ferry and logistics group of about 15,000 staff whose sales hiring is freight account work in its German, Benelux, French and UK units.
Is DFDS still an active employer?
Yes. Copenhagen-listed ferry and logistics group of about 15,000 staff whose sales hiring is freight account work in its German, Benelux, French and UK units. How its pay is structured: Salaried seats, with a performance bonus in Germany, full or part time in Hamburg and 32 to 40 hours a week in Nijmegen, a pension scheme in the Netherlands and up to three free trips a year on DFDS ships for the Dutch staff.
What does a sales job at DFDS pay?
Stated per posting. Only one of its 11 sales postings prints a figure: €45,000 to €52,000 a year for the Calais sales manager who looks after strategic accounts in Hauts-de-France. The German roles promise a market-rate package with a performance bonus scheme and a benefit card loaded with a monthly net credit, the Dutch roles a salary plus 8.33% holiday allowance and a lease car (optional for the Nijmegen field rep, included for the IJmuiden travel trade seller), and the Gent account manager a market wage with Belgian extras such as meal vouchers, hospitalisation and group insurance. None names an OTE, a commission rate or a split between base and variable.
Is selling for DFDS worth it?
Posted pay at DFDS: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Industrial and logistics sales suit reps who build long account relationships and like being in front of customers.
How is DFDS's sales comp put together?
Salaried seats, with a performance bonus in Germany, full or part time in Hamburg and 32 to 40 hours a week in Nijmegen, a pension scheme in the Netherlands and up to three free trips a year on DFDS ships for the Dutch staff.
Where are DFDS's sales roles based?
No US openings: Hamburg (four) and Gernsheim in Germany, Nijmegen (two) and IJmuiden in the Netherlands, Gent in Belgium, Calais in France and Immingham in England.
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