Sales Engineer Contractors and Consultants

Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with customers with installed base to initiate contact promote Products Solutions Software and Services offers in communication with all levels of the customer (Contractor Channel) organization to ensure offers are fully comprehended by the customer organisation.

• The successful candidate should have a technical qualification preferably at degree level in engineering and at least > 2 years sales experience with some sales experience in electrical engineering
• Electrical systems experience distribution and protection experience power quality experience to establish yourself as a trusted advisor and create demands
• Account management skill
• Cold calling and Social selling
• Persuading convincing or impressing others in order to promote our offers and get them to support influencing other decision makers.
• Active Listening- provide full attention to the content and meanings of others messages.
• The ability to build and maintain business relationships
• Energetic outgoing proactive and have attention to prospecting and networking
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Good knowledge of power systems secure power and industry systems would be beneficial

Desirable

• Background on Power Systems (LV and or MV). Knowledge an advantage

• Competence in Software sales would be an advantage

• Initiates contact develop manage and implement a commercial strategy for targetedContractor Channel.
• To actively promote and educate applicableContractor Channel Specific attention to customer specification and training
• To develop robust knowledge of the full offer based on Products Solutions Software and Services offer and how to apply the offers across the customer lifecycle.
• Ability to cross sell the offers
• Develop working knowledge of allProducts Solutions Software and Servicesoffer portfolio from the lines of business
• Establish and implement dynamic sales plans in accordance with processes.
• Provide relevant and timely information to the tendering team Regular interaction with the Tendering and other sales team members and Zone marketing
• Working with internal colleagues in all Entity Sales Marketing Technical and Techno-commercial teams and Countries to ensure effective cross-entity regional national and international team co-operation
• Ensure that customer issues are owned and resolved by the most appropriate owners within the business units
• Provide all relevant accurate information and reporting in a timely manner as required by line manager and feedback to marketing.
• To manage and maintain customer and partnerrecords using the appropriate company tools
• Actively monitor the actions of competitors
• Personal awareness of development needs in line with knowledge and skills required for the role
• Actively develop core competency in line with personal development plan
• To supportcompany initiatives andchampion product competency development of other team members