Lead Sales Engineer - Energy Transition

About the role

Eaton’s North American Sales Division seeks a Lead Sales Engineer to join the team. The role is based in Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, or San Antonio, TX. Focus areas include Energy Transition solutions like EV Charging Infrastructure, Solar, Wind, Battery Storage, Microgrids, and Digital Software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sales plans to meet performance expectations and requirements
• Quote projects and negotiate correct required pricing
• Prepare sales presentations to create product understanding and awareness
• Build relationships with key customers to enhance long-term business prospects
• Work with factories to resolve technical issues while working with customers to resolve quality issues
• Canvas the market to gain insight and adjust to ever-changing pricing and delivery requirements
• Aid the team to develop a coordinated sales effort while keeping management informed of market conditions
• Obtain ongoing training on both functional and technical skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum five (5) years of electrical industry or energy transition experience
• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• Ability to respond to a variety of challenging circumstances while continuing to demonstrate superior selling skills
• Electrical product knowledge
• Ability to provide technical solutions built around customer needs
• Skilled in time management
• Experience with preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations
• Robust presentation, training, and communications skills
• Experience utilizing Value Added selling techniques
• Strong work ethic, communications skills, competitiveness, willingness to learn, and adept at building relationships
• Experience working with Bidmanager and Vista

Skills

• Ability to respond to a variety of challenging circumstances while continuing to demonstrate superior selling skills for important customer services and applications
• Electrical product knowledge
• Ability to provide technical solutions built around customer needs
• Skilled in time management
• Experience with preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations
• Robust presentation, training, and communications skills
• Experience utilizing Value Added selling techniques
• Strong work ethic, communications skills, competitiveness, willingness to learn, and adept at building relationships
• Experience working with Bidmanager and Vista

Benefits

The company offers various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. For more details, visit Eaton Benefits Overview.