Fire/Life Safety Service Senior Sales Executive

About the role

This role supports our Las Vegas branch location, which serves customers throughout the greater Las Vegas, NV area. Here at Siemens, we take pride in enabling sustainable progress through technology. We do this through empowering customers by combining the real and digital worlds. We are improving how we live, work, and move today and for the next generation!

Responsibilities

• Achieve new order/booking and profit goals based on your assigned quota.
• Develop and maintain a qualified funnel of opportunities including forecasting expected order intake.
• Deliver on forecasted results consistently.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the marketplace, competitor offerings, customers, and decision influencers across the region, segments, and verticals within the region.
• Keep current on automation, electrical, fire, mechanical, and IoT market business and product trends.
• Develop a vertical market and account management plan that focuses on strategic growth.
• Identify new business opportunities to grow in new markets or adjacent segments and develop “go to market” strategies to drive business to the end user customer and the standard construction channel.
• Act as a consultant to multiple levels of the customer’s organization by understanding their challenges and recommending services to ensure their building systems perform as required to achieve business goals.
• Attend industry-specific networking events; actively participate in professional organizations such as NFPA, NFSA, ASHE, NBFAA, AFAA, IFMA, SAME, 7x24, ASHRAE, AEE or USGBC etc. to build a network of contacts and to represent Siemens in the market.
• Consult with the customer and determine budgeting and investment requirements.
• Position Siemens as an industry leader among service providers, leveraging Siemens world-class digital service delivery as a key differentiator.
• Collaborate with operations and internal teams to deliver excellent customer outcomes.
• Work with your internal sales support to enable you to spend more time with your customers.
• Collaborate with sales estimators to prepare cost estimates and customer bid packages.
• Partner with other sales business teams to plan, target, and acquire new projects and accounts.
• Set pricing based on identified value of the services offered to the customer.
• Work with operations, finance, legal and other inside and outside resources to obtain the sale.
• Actively participate in sales department meetings, workshops, and seminars to stay knowledgeable on current market, business, and product trends.
• Expected to spend minimum 50% of time in customer facing activities, performed in person and on customer site.
• Work with existing customer base supporting their needs as well as act as a hunter to bring in new customers to the business.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or state-recognized GED
• 3+ years of experience with sales, account and business development, or project management within the commercial fire alarm, sprinkler, suppression, life safety or similar commercial building/construction industries.
• On-the-job experience with: Selling service agreements to multiple levels of the customer’s organization Estimating and selling technical solutions and servicing offerings effectively and independently
• Versatility in verbal and written communication skills in English
• Must be 21 years of age and possess a valid driver's license with limited violations; must meet eligibility requirements to participate in Siemens' fleet vehicle program

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering (Preferred)
• NICET Level I or II Fire Alarm Certification or must complete certification testing within 2 years (Preferred)
• 5 + Years of Experience in sales, business development, or consulting within the commercial fire alarm, sprinkler, suppression, life safety or similar commercial building/construction industries. (Preferred)

Skills

• Basic computer literacy
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Knowledge of fire alarm systems and related technologies
• Ability to travel overnight ~10% for training and business development as required based on your assigned territory

Benefits

Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html