Sales Support Engineer - Electrical/Mechanical

Job description

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The primary responsibilities of this position is to handle all transactional sales for E&P Services in the local area from start to finish. The individual will provide quotation support to the services team in a given geography, will provide sales support for the implementation of our Customer Relationship Management tool, and will have basic account responsibility.

This position is accountable for knowing and selling the company’s service offerings, basic products, and understanding our pricing processes utilizing industry knowledge. The individual will develop knowledge of local market conditions, market segment strategies, customers, and sales plans for the accounts in their assigned area. The

The individual in this position will:
· Utilize commercial and technical knowledge to assist with the preparation of services quotations in support of services sales efforts in a local area.
· Must possess the ability to interpret customer requirements/scope, match products to customer specifications/drawings and ensures that the quote is technically compatible by communicating with the Services Sales Engineer, the services operations team, and matrix sales team members.
· Develop and maintain a quotation follow up database and follow up on jobs with our customers, field sales, and channel partners.
· Be the local area expert on our order conversion and order handoff process and procedures and the individual will serve as the primary interaction with our sales operations team for their assigned area.
· May attend sales calls, pre-bid meetings and site walk-throughs for potential projects.
· Negotiate with sub-contractors to strengthen chances of project award.
· Consult with Operations, Engineering and Sales groups throughout the bid process.
· Attends various meetings throughout project, including order hand-off and design review.

The successful candidate will provide data entry support for service sales engineers as part of the Global roll out of Bridge Front Office.
· Will be accountable, along with the SSE, for ensuring all opportunities are entered into the tool. Will be responsible for creation and tracking of custom reports as directed by the services area sales manager.
· Will be responsible for communicating and coordinating efforts between sales and operations for larger opportunities and must understand and follow our escalation review policy.
· Will be responsible for planning coordination between our Channel Partner’s and National Sales Team.
· Must work closely with the Sales and Operations personnel in a team atmosphere to accomplish their sales objectives and strategic goals.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required. Preferred candidate will have knowledge of electrical distribution products. Experience with our quotation tools, customer relationship tools, and ERP system.

The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated team player with good time management, verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to effectively utilize company software programs/collaborative tools and can manage several tasks simultaneously. Inside sales experience a must and/or outside sales experience.

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