Senior Outside Sales Engineer

Senior Outside Sales EngineerEaton's North America Sales division is currently seeking a Senior Outside Sales Engineer. This role supports the Louisiana/southern Arkansas territory. This is a home-based position where candidates for this role must reside within 50 miles of our Minden, LA location. Upon hire, one must be in the Grapevine, TX office a few days a week for onboarding and training and come to the office for occasional meetings. If you have a background in sales and business development or journeyman electrician background, we would be interested in speaking with you.What You'll Do:The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to market and sell Eaton's electrical products and services in a profitable and ethical manner to targeted customers in the Residential, Commercial, Construction, or Industrial markets. 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 for distributors, 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: • Develop and execute sales plans to meet performance expectations and requirements • Quote projects and negotiate correct required pricing • Prepare sales presentations to create product understanding and awareness • Build relationships with key customers to enhance long-term business prospects • Work with factories to resolve technical issues while working with customers to resolve quality issues • Canvas the market to gain insight and adjust to ever changing pricing and delivery requirements • Assist team to develop a coordinated sales effort while keeping management informed of market conditions • Obtain ongoing training on both functional and technical skillsQualifications:Required (Basic) Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution OR High School Diploma or GED and Journeyman's Electrician License • Minimum three 3 years of experience in B2B sales, channel sales, business development, account management, sales engineering, product management, or related technical or commercial roles.• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver's license• Ability to travel 25% of the time.•Eaton 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.• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Minden, LA to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical EngineeringSkills:Position Criteria: • Possess excellent communication skills • Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future • Ability to respond to a variety of circumstances while continuing to demonstrate superior selling skills for important customer services and applications • Electrical product knowledge • Ability to provide technical solutions built around customer needs • Skilled in time management • Possess negotiating skills while understanding and using techniques needed to close orders • Experience with preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations • Robust presentation & training skills • Experience utilizing value-added selling techniques • Strong work ethic, competitiveness, willingness to learn and adept at building relationships • Experience working with Bidmanager and Vista • Ability to travel up to 25%The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $107,250 - $157,300.Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.