Senior Sales Engineer

Overview

Eaton’s North American Sales division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to join their team. This role will work remotely within the Huntsville, AL or Muscle Shoals, AL area, covering the northern Alabama territory with a focus on power distribution solutions. This opportunity provides responsibility for selling assigned product lines, optimizing sales results, and managing customer and distributor relationships. It also includes interpreting specifications, addressing customer issues, and gathering market intelligence to support business needs.

• 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.

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Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum three (3) years’ experience within the electrical industry
• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• No relocation assistance will be provided for this role. Candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of either Huntsville, AL or Muscle Shoals, AL. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Skills:

• 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 Bid manager 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

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 $xxx-xxx

Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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