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Education
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Huseyin Adanur

Istanbul
Huseyin Adanur

Summary

Experienced professional with 20+ years in electrification, electro-hydraulics and hydraulics with a strong focus on sales, sales management and technical applications. I have successfully scaled sales strategies across East Europe, Turkiye, Middle East and Africa. Continue to pursue value-driven growth. In my most recent role at Danfoss,


I led distributor development and sector-specific sales strategies across EMEA, managing both direct and indirect sales channels. I’m committed to ethical, customer-focused work and building collaborative, high-performing teams that drive impactful results.

Overview

18
years of professional experience
2
Languages

Work History

Danfoss

Regional Sales Manager - East Europe, Turkiye, Middle East & Africa
12.2021 - 09.2025

Job overview

  • Manage multi-national & decentralized team members across different countries like South Africa, Saudi Arabia, United Arabian Emirates & Turkiye after the merger of Eaton Hydraulics (lead >5 team members)
  • Strengthened the regional partner network by identifying & enabling strategic distributors across key geographies
  • Achieve 500% sales growth for across the TMA region — with a remarkable 700% growth specifically in Turkiye (two digit m€ revenue)

Danfoss

Sales Manager - Turkiye, Middle-East & Africa
09.2018 - 12.2021

Job overview

  • Proactively cover the account management role
  • Support distribution partners for OEM projects and businesses commercially & technically
  • Use CRM, ERP, CLM etc. to manage the pipeline & sales growth
  • Work with different colleagues from different departments like customer care, application engineering, finance, product management so on to utilize the team work to win

Danfoss

Senior Account Manager, Turkiye
03.2014 - 09.2018

Job overview

  • Strategically expanded the OEM customers’ portfolio and develop the distribution partner network.
  • Achieve 250% sales growth in OEM business and 300% growth for distributor channel sales within 18 months (significantly develop the opportunity pipeline)
  • Cover similar role as sales & applications engineer role before the acquisition of Eaton Hydraulics as Eaton Hydraulics employee
  • This role laid the foundation for my promotion to a regional sales position covering Turkiye, Middle East and Africa.

OTOKAR

Hydraulics System Design Engineer
10.2010 - 03.2014

Job overview

  • Design, document and apply hydraulic system on Altay Main Battle Tank Project (Otokar is an OEM company)
  • Support the other projects for hydraulic applications

Hidropol

Project & Sales Engineer
04.2007 - 10.2010

Job overview

  • Design and apply hydraulic systems to mobile & industrial systems like drilling machine, concrete pump, hydraulic presses, pipe welding machines etc. (Hidropol is a distribution partner for several brands)
  • Realize sales activities with new customer visits and solution presentation

Education

Selcuk University
Konya

Bachelor from Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
06-2005

Kocaeli University

Master from Electrohydraulics Engineering

University Overview

hold on thesis stage

TOBB ETÜ SEM

MBA
10.2025

University Overview

will be finalized on October 2025

Skills

Sales Leadership

Interests

Gardening, Hiking, Swimming

Training

  • Value Selling, Danfoss, Denmark, 40 hours
  • Growing Myself, Danfoss, Denmark, 20 hours
  • Leading Others, Danfoss, 20 hours
  • Electrification, Danfoss, 10 hours
  • Coaching for Win, Danfoss, 5 hours
  • Financial Awareness, 5 hours
  • Negotiation Tactics, Danfoss, 5 hours
  • Marketing Tips & Tricks, Danfoss, 5 hours
  • System & Product Trainings, Danfoss, multiple
  • Mobile Hydraulics, Otokar (facilitated by Rexroth), Istanbul, 20 hours

Timeline

Regional Sales Manager - East Europe, Turkiye, Middle East & Africa

Danfoss
12.2021 - 09.2025

Sales Manager - Turkiye, Middle-East & Africa

Danfoss
09.2018 - 12.2021

Senior Account Manager, Turkiye

Danfoss
03.2014 - 09.2018

Hydraulics System Design Engineer

OTOKAR
10.2010 - 03.2014

Project & Sales Engineer

Hidropol
04.2007 - 10.2010

Selcuk University

Bachelor from Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Kocaeli University

Master from Electrohydraulics Engineering

TOBB ETÜ SEM

MBA
Huseyin Adanur