Junior Outside Sales Representative
AMOT Controls · Houston, TX · 1 mo ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
Responsibilities
- Conduct consistent outbound sales activity to identify, engage, and develop new customers and sales opportunities.
- Develop relationships with end users, packagers, integrators, service companies, and other targeted customers within assigned markets and territories.
- Identify and engage new contacts within existing customer organizations to expand AMOT's relationships and market presence.
- Proactively reach out to prospects and schedule meetings to introduce AMOT's products, capabilities, and value propositions.
- Conduct customer meetings, virtual calls, presentations, and site visits.
- Identify customer needs and applications where AMOT products and solutions can provide value.
- Generate and develop qualified sales opportunities and manage those opportunities throughout the sales process.
- Maintain consistent follow-up on quotations, proposals, and active opportunities to help drive them toward closure.
- Identify opportunities to expand AMOT's product content and revenue within existing accounts.
- Possess the ability to prospect within assigned markets and geographic territories to identify new customers, applications, projects, and revenue opportunities.
- Work toward progressively greater ownership of customer relationships, opportunities, accounts, and territory development as experience and product knowledge grow.
Market & Territory Development
- Develop business within targeted industries and applications, including offshore and marine, oil and gas, power generation, compression, industrial equipment, and other markets utilizing engines, compressors, turbines, and rotating equipment.
- Identify packagers, system integrators, service companies, end users, and other organizations that represent potential opportunities for AMOT products.
- Develop an understanding of the major customers, applications, competitors, and market dynamics within assigned territories.
- Identify underserved customers and applications where AMOT can expand its market presence.
- Develop and execute customer call plans in coordination with Sales leadership.
- Visit customer facilities to develop relationships, understand applications, identify problems, and uncover new product opportunities.
- Attend industry events, trade shows, customer events, and other activities that support territory and market development.
Product & Application Knowledge
- Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of AMOT's products, applications, capabilities, and value propositions.
- Develop a strong understanding of AMOT's core markets and the applications in which AMOT products are used.
- Understand the fundamentals of engines, compressors, turbines, and other rotating equipment and how AMOT products interact with these systems.
- Learn to identify customer application requirements and recommend appropriate AMOT products and solutions.
- Clearly communicate AMOT product capabilities, operating principles, performance characteristics, and competitive advantages.
- Continuously expand technical and product knowledge through independent study, internal training, customer interactions, and collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, and Technical Sales.
- Recognize when additional technical expertise is required and effectively engage the appropriate internal resources.
- Maintain awareness of competitor products, industry developments, and trends within assigned markets.
Customer Development
- Build and maintain strong relationships with existing customers while continuously developing new customer relationships.
- Expand AMOT's contact base within customer organizations by developing relationships across engineering, operations, maintenance, purchasing, management, and other relevant functions.
- Understand customer operations, equipment, applications, challenges, and business objectives.
- Identify customer problems that AMOT products or capabilities can help solve.
- Cookordination with internal resources to ensure customer needs are properly understood and addressed.
- Position AMOT as a trusted technical and commercial partner.
- Maintain consistent customer engagement and follow-up to support long-term account development.
CRM & Opportunity Management
- Maintain accurate and timely customer and opportunity information within the company's CRM systems.
- Document customer calls, meetings, and visits.
- Maintain accurate customer and contact information.
- Create and update qualified sales opportunities.
- Document customer requirements, applications, and next steps.
- Maintain accurate opportunity values and expected timing.
- Track quotations and proposals and ensure appropriate customer follow-up.
- Maintain visibility of new contacts, projects, applications, and potential future opportunities.
- Track sales activity and customer engagement within assigned accounts and territories.
Internal Collaboration
- Work closely with Sales leadership to prioritize territories, customers, prospects, and opportunities.
- Collaborate with Technical Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Service, Operations, and Marketing to support customer opportunities.
- Engage technical resources when additional product or application expertise is required.
- Communicate customer needs, market feedback, competitive information, and potential product opportunities internally.
- Participate in sales meetings, product training, application training, and other professional development activities.
- Share customer and market intelligence with the broader Sales organization.
Behavioral Competencies
- Customer Focus: Develop trusted customer relationships by understanding customer applications, challenges, and business needs while providing responsive and professional support.
- Problem Solving: Identify customer challenges and opportunities and work collaboratively with internal resources to develop practical solutions that create value for the customer and AMOT.
- Time Management: Effectively prioritize prospecting, customer visits, opportunity follow-up, travel, CRM activities, and internal responsibilities while maintaining consistent sales activity and responsiveness.
- Teamwork: Work collaboratively across Sales, Technical Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operations to support customers and achieve business objectives.