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KOSTAL
About KOSTAL
KOSTAL hires sellers division by division, and each division has its own buyer: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik and KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme sell control units, switches, power electronics and plug connectors to carmakers and tier suppliers, the Drives unit of KOSTAL Industrie Elektrik sells its INVEOR motor-mounted frequency inverters to OEM machine builders, vaylens sells charge-point management software to utilities and Stadtwerke, and KOSTAL Solar Electric sells inverters, storage and wallboxes through the solar trade. Automotive selling is RFQ and margin work: the Lüdenscheid Key Account Manager (five to eight years with German OEMs) weighs tenders, steers quotes for series parts, tooling and engineering, tracks nominations and escalates to a Global Key Account Manager, while the connector Account Manager covers OEM and tier customers in the field from first inquiry to series production. In Hagen the Drives unit wants a Vertriebsleiter who still hunts large OEM accounts personally, mainly in DACH and Italy, while leading key account, field, inside account and technical sales support staff, plus a Key Account Manager to land big OEM customers in intralogistics with regular trips abroad. vaylens adds two full-cycle sales managers working pipelines in Salesforce, one in Vienna for Austria and one in Dortmund for DACH energy suppliers and municipal utilities, both asking for three to five years of B2B, SaaS or solution sales. Of the 15 openings with sales titles, only these six are customer-facing selling seats; the rest are sales planning and inside sales back office (quotes, pricing, cost breakdowns) at the Budapest business service centre, three working-student jobs, a part-time phone prospecting project for solar installers in Poland, an internal PLM consultant and a customer quality engineer in Morocco.
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KOSTAL as an employer
Family-owned German electronics group founded in 1912 with about 20,000 staff, whose sales hiring is key account work with carmakers and OEM machine builders around Lüdenscheid and Hagen. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
12 sales openings on its careers board right now12 sales openings at KOSTAL, as its own board showed them 5 Nov 2026.
German sales seats are salaried, on the metalworkers' collective scale or above it, with company pension, bike leasing and staff canteens; none of the postings mentions commission, students are paid by the hour, and the Polish phone work is a civil-law side contract of about 3 to 8 hours a week.
Right now 5 of its 12 open sales roles are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: No US openings: Germany (Lüdenscheid five, Hagen three, Dortmund one), Budapest (three), Vienna, Świdnik in Poland and Tangier in Morocco.
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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 KOSTAL
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 30 Oct 2026
Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: The only figures are hourly rates in the working-student ads, which pay by the hour: €15 an hour for the Hagen business development student and one Lüdenscheid inside sales student, and €13 an hour during a bachelor's (€15 during a master's) for the other. The Lüdenscheid automotive Key Account Manager is paid on the metal and electrical industry collective agreement with holiday pay, a Christmas payment and the agreed supplementary payment on a 35-hour week, and the connector Account Manager gets a company car and pay above the collective scale, but neither prints an amount. The Drives, vaylens and Budapest postings name no pay, and the Polish phone project says only that it is paid. The roles listed below state what KOSTAL posts now.
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Is KOSTAL a good company to sell for?
Family-owned German electronics group founded in 1912 with about 20,000 staff, whose sales hiring is key account work with carmakers and OEM machine builders around Lüdenscheid and Hagen.
Is KOSTAL still an active employer?
Yes. Family-owned German electronics group founded in 1912 with about 20,000 staff, whose sales hiring is key account work with carmakers and OEM machine builders around Lüdenscheid and Hagen. How its pay is structured: German sales seats are salaried, on the metalworkers' collective scale or above it, with company pension, bike leasing and staff canteens; none of the postings mentions commission, students are paid by the hour, and the Polish phone work is a civil-law side contract of about 3 to 8 hours a week.
What does a sales job at KOSTAL pay?
Stated per posting. The only figures are hourly rates in the working-student ads, which pay by the hour: €15 an hour for the Hagen business development student and one Lüdenscheid inside sales student, and €13 an hour during a bachelor's (€15 during a master's) for the other. The Lüdenscheid automotive Key Account Manager is paid on the metal and electrical industry collective agreement with holiday pay, a Christmas payment and the agreed supplementary payment on a 35-hour week, and the connector Account Manager gets a company car and pay above the collective scale, but neither prints an amount. The Drives, vaylens and Budapest postings name no pay, and the Polish phone project says only that it is paid.
Is selling for KOSTAL worth it?
Posted pay at KOSTAL: 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 KOSTAL's sales comp put together?
German sales seats are salaried, on the metalworkers' collective scale or above it, with company pension, bike leasing and staff canteens; none of the postings mentions commission, students are paid by the hour, and the Polish phone work is a civil-law side contract of about 3 to 8 hours a week.
Where are KOSTAL's sales roles based?
Right now 5 of its 12 open sales roles are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: No US openings: Germany (Lüdenscheid five, Hagen three, Dortmund one), Budapest (three), Vienna, Świdnik in Poland and Tangier in Morocco.
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