Senior Sales Engineer
Eaton
Senior Sales Engineer
Eaton
Power management leader for electrical systems
Eaton's North American Sales division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to join its team. This role will be based at our Salt Lake City, UT location and comes with a company car! This exciting opportunity provides responsibility for driving sales and technical support for residential power distribution solutions across the Salt Lake City, Eastern Idaho, and Las Vegas markets. The role offers direct ownership of customer relationships, distributor engagement, sales growth, bids, quotations, market intelligence, and technical support activities.
The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in targeted market areas. This position will be responsible to achieve the assigned sales goal consistent with the expectations of a thoroughly seasoned professional sales engineer for the assigned product categories while under little supervision. It will be an expectation to optimize sales volume, product mix and profit margin, while increasing sales in the marketplace. This position will need to coordinate sales for the assigned customer and distributor base. It has the responsibility to manage all aspects of the customer relationship, providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, customers, end users, and specifiers.
The primary functions include: providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users and Electrical Group personnel; provide timely and accurate information for order entry, while elevating quality issues to attention of management, and ensuring that accurate information flows to market intelligence data on competitive products, customer needs preference and buying habits; support distributor inventories and inventory turns by recommending specific products and levels to be stocked; and provide necessary reports and surveys requested in a timely manner.
Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you.
In this function you will:
•You will accurate and timely planning and specification interpretation, quotation, and technical support
•You will communicate with customers, warehouse, and plants to facilitate problem resolution
•You will collect, analyze, and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences, and buying habits
•You will review and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications
•You will provide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedure for resolution
•You will be aware of and responsive to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisions
•You will plan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton’s position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals;
•You will prepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment.
When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.
•Knowledge of key customers within sales territories
•Time management, presentation, and planning skills
•Commands knowledge of Eaton Electrical product and service capabilities and can assemble standard offerings to meet customer needs with occasional internal oversight
•Possesses an understanding of the sales process using sales techniques as evidenced by good customer relationships
•Skilled in Bidmanager and Vista
•Demonstrated and understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors
•Effective interpersonal and teamwork skills
•Ability to leverage support personnel to meet customer and organizational needs
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $107,500 - $157,500
Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Eaton designs and sells electrical power management products and services for data centers, utilities, aerospace, and other industries. It provides hardware like switches, circuit breakers, transformers, and distribution equipment, plus software and services to monitor, protect, and optimize power flow from generation to end use. It combines an end-to-end power management portfolio with a long history of acquisitions to be a broad, globally integrated provider. Its goal is to enable reliable, efficient, and safe electrification across industries by improving energy management and resilience.
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