Manufacturing Sales Engineer (Cedar Rapids)

Scope of the Position :

Achieve the profitable bookings and GM sales goals of Mestek Machinery, complying with all company profiles and procedures using a customer centric sales approach. As an integral component of the sales department and sales function, the sales engineer will be responsible for representing the family of Mestek Machinery companies to prospects and customers. Maintains effective communications with all internal personnel including other sales personnel, technical design and engineering, customer service, and various managers to ensure proper support of client needs and flow of competitive information into the groups marketing and development teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Assist with preparing sales quotations, working closely with technical and sales personnel to ensure closure of the potential sale and maximize profits according to established company financial objectives.
• Maintain price and cost sheets, with consideration for company profitability goals in mind.
• Review with engineering the development roadmap for new products and determine a process of implementing into quoting process.
• Work with Sales Managers to review market pricing and support desired GM.
• Review customer need and contract writing to assess any additional or future sales potential to be realized.
• Evaluate the sale for possible risk assessment and management.
• Utilize Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database, salesforce.com, while integrating new sales techniques into salesforce.com and Epicor.
• Assist Engineering and Manufacturing with after sales support to resolve any issues that arise focusing on achieving customer satisfaction and timely delivery of the product.
• Communicating and keeping sales team up to date with the latest Productivity tools for communication and collaboration
• Office Suite / G-Suite, Skype, and Salesforce or similar cloud-based CRM
• Periodically attend technical conferences to present Mestek Machinerys solutions, general industry information and to remain up to date on the state of the art in metal forming solutions.
• Periodically visit customers to assist Regional Sales personnel in presentation of Mestek Machinery proposals.
• Miscellaneous assignments, organization of tasks.

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