Sales Engineer (Midwest/St. Louis/Kansas City)

Principle Responsibilities

• Drive sales of all Crane ChemPharma & Energy products within defined geographic territory to achieve profitable growth.
• Identify key influencers at Target Key Accounts and End Users to develop and implement sales strategies aligning our value propositions for their applications.
• Become champion of Crane Business System (CBS) and use the tools as part of standard work to achieve results.
• Work closely with Key Account Team within Crane to develop strategies for Target End Users in Refining and Chemical Industries.
• Drive execution of MRO business and develop conversion accounts.
• Identify and Manage projects in territory through IIR (Industrial Info Resources) and the Global Project Tracker (Salesforce CRM) tool from the Crane Business System.
• Maintain a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the product line and the value proposition within specific applications.
• Assist Business Line Managers in New Product Development and sales integration with Target End Users and Channel.
• Develop sales forecast for each product line to assist Business Line Managers with production.
• Monitor and report competitive landscape within territory for all CPE products.
• Conduct lunch and learns for distribution channels, end users, and EPC’s as required.
• Manage territory within the guidelines of budgets, reporting, and distribution management.

Qualifications / Experience / Personal Characteristics

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field, business or marketing.
• Minimum 2 years Outside Sales managing similar product with distributors, contractors, and/or end users.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to quickly build relationships.
• Knowledge of how to create a product differentiation, value proposed, product advantage to win MRO and project orders versus competition.
• Strong listening skills with the ability to assimilate information and translate it into customer solutions.
• High energy team player and competitor.
• Competent with basic use of MS products (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) & various Web Apps.
• Accomplish all tasks as appropriately assigned or requested.

Personal Characteristics

• Must be able to travel day and night. (Est. 60% in territory).
• Must be capable of air travel.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.