Senior Sales Engineer

Eaton’s North American Sales Division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to join its team in Grapevine, TX. This opportunity involves managing a customer base, driving electrical product sales, and delivering technical solutions within a defined market, with exposure to pricing, negotiations, and relationship management with customers and distributors. The role has a strong national contract base that gives access to large-scale national end users.

The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to market and sell Eaton’s products and services to obtain profitable orders.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and execute sales plans to meet performance expectations
• Quote projects and negotiate required pricing
• Prepare sales presentations to create product understanding and awareness
• Build relationships with key customers to enhance long-term business prospects
• Work with factories to resolve technical issues while collaborating with customers to resolve quality issues
• Canvas the market to gain insight and adjust to ever-changing pricing and delivery requirements
• Assist the team to develop a coordinated sales effort while keeping management informed of market conditions
• Obtain ongoing training on both functional and technical skills

Required (Basic)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum three years of technical or commercial field experience
• Valid driver’s license
• No relocation is offered; must reside within 50 miles of Grapevine, TX (Active-Duty Military Service members are exempt)
• Position does not offer immigration sponsorship or support for CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, H-1B, O-1, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future
• Responsive to a variety of circumstances while demonstrating superior selling skills for customer services and applications
• Strong electrical product knowledge
• Ability to provide technical solutions built around customer needs
• Skilled in time management
• Negotiating skills with techniques needed to close orders
• Experience preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations
• Robust presentation and training skills
• Experience utilizing value-added selling techniques
• Strong work ethic, competitiveness, willingness to learn, and adept at building relationships
• Experience working with Bidmanager and Vista

The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and a target sales performance incentive. The target total compensation range is $107,500 to $157,500.

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Eaton provides various health and welfare benefits as well as retirement benefits, and several programs that provide paid and unpaid time away from work. Eaton Benefits Overview.