- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- Wholesale, Commercial & B2B Sales
- Industry
- Fine Watches & Horology
- Posted
- Nov 2, 2026
About Montblanc
Montblanc is a global maison renowned for uniting fine craftsmanship, innovation, and timeless elegance across writing instruments, leather goods, watches, accessories, and new technologies. Founded in 1906 and inspired by the spirit of exploration and mastery, the brand offers employees the opportunity to contribute to a heritage of excellence while shaping contemporary luxury experiences for discerning clients worldwide. As an employer, Montblanc values precision, creativity, service excellence, and an entrepreneurial mindset, fostering an international environment where talent can grow across retail, design, manufacturing, marketing, and corporate functions. Its teams are united by a commitment to quality, cultural refinement, and meaningful client relationships.
Montblanc seeks a Sales Associate in Bengaluru to manage sales channels, strategic customer accounts, partner relationships, pricing, contracts, CRM, compliance, and product education. The role requires a master’s degree or equivalent, extensive experience advising others, and experience supervising more junior colleagues; it is full-time.
Role & Responsibilities
- Manage a sales channel, such as direct, online, or retail sales, and develop and implement channel strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Identify business opportunities, set sales targets, and monitor performance against sales goals.
- Manage channel-partner relationships, negotiate contracts, and provide training and support to enable partners to sell products effectively.
- Develop relationship-management plans for complex prospective customer accounts, build relationships with relevant decision-makers and influencers, facilitate information exchange, and resolve issues.
- Set objectives for sales calls; prepare and deliver presentations tailored to customer decision-makers’ and influencers’ interests and needs; gather and analyse information; and secure agreement on customer requirements.
- Build a professional network and represent the organisation at industry events to gather market intelligence and enhance the visibility and reputation of the organisation, its products, and services.
- Configure complex product and service solutions and contractual terms for customers’ mid- to long-term needs, incorporating input from internal specialists; present solutions and negotiate within defined commercial parameters, or review and authorise non-standard sales proposals from team members, escalating issues as needed.
- Manage pricing and terms projects and negotiate pricing and terms with external strategic partners.
- Manage assigned business-performance metrics in alignment with financial goals and objectives.
- Manage a contract portfolio and negotiate service-level agreements; plan, coordinate, and supervise activities for major contracts.
- Oversee CRM system implementation and maintenance within the area of responsibility, identifying and communicating improvement opportunities.
- Implement and oversee compliance management for assigned segments of external partners.
- Develop product-education courses to address identified needs, improve performance, and meet business requirements.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert in technology, policy, regulation, or operational management; maintain external accreditations and current knowledge of regulations and industry practices through continuing professional development, conferences, and specialist media.
- Conduct all activities in accordance with the company’s diversity and inclusion guidelines.
- Provide general supervision to more junior colleagues.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent level of education.
- Extensive experience enabling the role holder to handle the majority of situations and advise others.
- Experience in general supervision of more junior colleagues.
Skills
Experience
Extensive experience enabling the role holder to handle the majority of situations and advise others; experience in general supervision of more junior colleagues.
Education
Master’s degree or equivalent level of education.
Workplace
This position is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
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Culture
Montblanc fosters a refined, international workplace culture rooted in craftsmanship, heritage, and a commitment to timeless innovation. As an employer, it values meticulous attention to detail, collaborative excellence, and the personal development of teams who bring its luxury writing instruments, leather goods, watches, and accessories to life.
About Cerulean
Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.
Frequently Asked Questions
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