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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.

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