Sales Support Professional

About the role

The Sales Application Engineer provides quotation support and development for new offers for medium voltage drives. This role develops, edits, and writes original proposal responses and other sales-related documents.

Responsibilities

• Timely preparation of detailed engineering proposals for the medium voltage drives product line.
• Accurately interpret client’s technical specification and produce a compliant technical proposal, offering more suitable alternatives where appropriate.
• Accurately interpret client’s commercial requirements and ensure any commercial or contractual risks to the company are identified and mitigated.
• Ensure proposals pricing and estimating is in line with company’s agreed strategies on sales and marketing, charge out rates and availability of engineering resource.
• Act as a single point of contact for customer, outside sales and our representative channel and undertake a negotiating role when preparing costed proposals.
• Arrange and take a lead role in 'bid review', 'bid clarification' and 'sales handover' meetings.
• Write high quality technical and commercial documents and reports and present them to both internal and external audiences.
• Liaise with internal collaborators to assist in collating accurate data for the preparation of proposals.

Requirements

Experience in business for medium voltage inverter products, strong skills in communication, organizational change and influencing without authority, experience and strong abilities in the use of tools for proposal development.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Electrical Engineering, or advanced degree, where required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5-7 years of experience in related field and successful demonstration of Responsibilities as presented above. Advanced degree MAY be substituted for experience, where applicable.

Skills

Demonstrates extensive knowledge in field of specialization or multiple subject areas to the successful completion of sophisticated assignments. Optimally serves as point of authority and/or source of technical/scientific knowledge for area of expertise. Demonstrates extensive knowledge of organization's business practices and issues faced and contributes to problem resolution of those issues.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $77,800 - $133,400. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on qualifications
• Medical, dental, prescription and vision coverage, first day of employment
• Matching 401(k) (immediate employer match)
• Competitive paid time off plan, paid holidays, and floating holidays
• Career development opportunities
• Education and tuition reimbursement programs available
• Paid parental leave