Sales Engineer Sporlan Midwest

This position can be located in St. Louis or Kansas City

Key individual contributor and coordination role responsible for directing and generating new business opportunities for a major program, product line, market segment, and technology within a division.

This role will work with current and potential Aftermarket customers, End Users, the business development team and within the New Product Commercialization process to promote utilization of new technologies as well as current technologies, products and services to meet customer needs and to determine how the company's capabilities can be leveraged into additional markets.

Scope / Supervision and Interaction :

This position does not have direct reports

The Sales Engineer will focus on potential new business and technologies that will assist the division in meeting and exceeding the divisional growth objectives set forth by the Strategic Deployment Process.

The position will report to the directly to Regional Manager I.

Essential Functions :

• Systemic problem solver, the go to person for solving problems, technologies, and technical expertise.
• Relationship builder through trust, accountability, and ability to get things done for the customer, the person everyone wants to work with.
• Team leader / player in pulling the right people together to solve problems for the customer, works well with others,
• Ability to reach out and gain connections, identifies problems, and generates new sales.
• Develop and maintains relationships with customers to gain knowledge of future market and customer needs.
• Research and document new technologies which may assist in growth of the division. Develop business models for the technologies which include projected sales, potential market penetration, gross margins, risk analysis, and business feasibility.
• Develops and maintains strong client relationships with customers and end users. Ensures Parker products are specified to maintain and increase revenue by prioritizing the opportunities on an account-by-account basis to obtain optimum sales and margin results.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical knowledge of group / divisional products, applications, features, advantages and benefits.

Keeps up with internal and external training and development.

Develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of competitive products and their activity in the market place and provide reports, on a regular and / or monthly basis.

Keeps management aware of changes which would affect the distribution of Parker products. Participates in the development and implementation of appropriate response strategies.

Assist the divisions in planning strategy to provide the products and service required for their assigned accounts. Actively support cross divisional and group product with proper referral.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in technical / engineering discipline with a minimum of 5 years related technical experience.

• Program management experience from business model development through design and implementation processes.
• Innovative / creative background and capabilities.
• Premier customer service mentality and proven track record.
• Ability to develop solutions to customer problems and translate the solutions into business development strategies and products.
• Domestic overnight travel of 50% to 75%.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The essential functions have been provided as examples of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification.

The Company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and / or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions.

The job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

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