Engineered Sales

Cogent is a growing, Midwest company in the fluid pumping, water processing/treatment and equipment business. Our companies include BRI, Fluid Equipment, Lee Mathews, Vanco, Vandevanter Engineering & Water Technology Group. Together, the Cogent Companies provide best-in-class municipal & industrial water and wastewater process solutions and technical services.

Cogent’s Vanco division located in Tulsa, OK is currently seeking an experienced and hard-working Inside Engineered Salesperson. This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical preferred). Typical duties of an Inside Engineered Salesperson may include:

• Works closely with salesmen to determine essential strategic approaches for sales; provide technical assistance, pricing strategy, competitive review, installation and service information.
• Performs specification review, interpretation, equipment selection and quotation preparation.
• Compiles submittal documentation for bid approval and conducts final review on approved submittals.
• Sources product quotes from vendors.
• Analyzes customers’ requirements and engages in consultative selling with clients; provides value-added services and products to solve customer problems.
• Provides timely and accurate response to customer inquiries.
• Completes work order forms for purpose of order entry and invoicing.
• Reviews purchase orders to ensure the customer’s technical needs are met.
• Handles cancellations or changes in sales orders and communicates changes to appropriate personnel.
• Performs proactive telephone sales inquiries to investigate old or inactive customers to stimulate new sales activity with these customers and supports outside sales in follow up leads.