Solutions Specialist

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Crawford Electric Supply offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate throughout the southeast region of the United States, and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe.

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Position: Automation Sales & Services Specialist

Location: North/Central Arkansas

If you are looking for a company that is committed to building a relationship with you, encourages having fun at work, is powered by difference, and is passionate about your future, it’s time to apply at Crawford Electric Supply
. Known in the electrical distribution industry for being a great place to work and build a career, Crawford prides itself on being a business partner rather than just an electrical supplier to its customers. Every day, Crawford associates provide the best customer experience while at the same time offering the widest variety of electrical products on the market. For the past 30 years, Crawford has built a culture of growth, opportunity, innovative thinking, and stability for its employees by truly living up to the company motto of “Whatever it Takes!”

through our mindset competencies below.

• Adapt: Effectively embrace new situation and people
• Dare: Appropriately challenge the status quo
• Learn: Learn from others, from mistakes, and self‑improve

The Automation Specialist role is responsible for driving the business strategy to accelerate growth in Automation and Software-related businesses, including programmable controllers, I/O, safety, industrial computers, system network design, design software, operations software, and plant maintenance software. This position will provide technical, marketing, and commercial leadership for sales growth, be responsible for supporting the commercial plan for this business segment and take a lead role in developing a competency plan to ensure that support functions (inside/outside sales) are adequately prepared to maximize share gain for this business in the assigned territory.

• The Automation Specialist must be able to articulate the value of Rockwell's portfolio of Automation products and services and utilize outcome-based selling strategies at all customer levels.
• Serve as the key driver and business leader of their portfolio offerings.
• Responsible for input to annual planning, forecasting, and driving the business strategy to accelerate business growth and sales performance in the assigned geography.
• Lead the commercial introduction of new products and services including:
  • Set business goals
  • Identify customer targets
  • Drive marketing efforts, and run Rockwell Automation commercial programs
  • Coordinating sales engagement
• Provide technical, application, and industry training to distributor account managers for core products.
• Consult and advise customers on proposals and pricing strategies.
• Guide customers on the proper installation and configuration of core products, modernizations, and conversion to upgraded technology.
• Collaborate with Crawford Electric Support and Rockwell Automation sales, specialists, and domain experts to sell core products.
• Provide pre-sale and post-sale support.
• Understand market trends, business drivers, KPIs, and competing forces and translate them into customer solutions.
• Build and maintain trusted customer relationships, while understanding the different…