Senior Sales Engineer

Senior Sales EngineerEaton's North American Sales division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to join their team. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City, Utah office and will cover the Salt Lake City area and southeast Idaho, focusing on power distribution solutions. This exciting opportunity provides responsibility for managing all aspects of customer relationships while optimizing sales volume, product mix, and profit margins. It also offers autonomy to coordinate sales across assigned customers and distributors and provide technical assistance to key market stakeholders.What You'll Do:The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in targeted market areas. This position will be responsible to achieve the assigned sales goal consistent with the expectations of a thoroughly seasoned professional sales engineer for the assigned product categories while under little supervision. It will be an expectation to optimize sales volume, product mix and profit margin, while increasing sales in the marketplace. This position will need to coordinate sales for the assigned customer and distributor base. It has the responsibility to manage all aspects of the customer relationship, providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, customers, end users, and specifiers.The primary functions include: providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users and Electrical Group personnel; provide timely and accurate information for order entry, while elevating quality issues to attention of management, and ensuring that accurate information flows to market intelligence data on competitive products, customer needs preference and buying habits; support distributor inventories and inventory turns by recommending specific products and levels to be stocked; and provide necessary reports and surveys requested in a timely manner.In This Function You Will:You will accurate and timely planning and specification interpretation, quotation, and technical supportYou will communicate with customers, warehouse, and plants to facilitate problem resolutionYou will collect, analyze, and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences, and buying habitsYou will review and interpret customer needs on plans and specificationsYou will provide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedure for resolutionYou will be aware of and responsive to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisionsYou will plan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton's position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals;You will prepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment.Qualifications:Required (Basic) Qualifications:Bachelor's degree from an accredited institutionMinimum of three (3) years' experience within the electrical industryPossess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver's licenseNo relocation assistance will be provided for this role. Candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Salt Lake City, UT. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitationEaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical EngineeringSkills:Knowledge of key customers within sales territoriesTime management, presentation, and planning skillsCommands knowledge of Eaton Electrical product and service capabilities and can assemble standard offerings to meet customer needs with occasional internal oversightPossesses an understanding of the sales process using sales techniques as evidenced by good customer relationshipsSkilled in Bidmanager and VistaDemonstrated and understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitorsEffective interpersonal and teamwork skillsAbility to leverage support personnel to meet customer and organizational needs