What you’ll do:

The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell our clients electrical services offering to industrial, utility, commercial, data center and institutional customers in the targeted market areas. In doing so, the Lead Sales Engineer will manage the customer relationship, providing sales support and technical expertise to distributors, end users, contractors and specifiers. You will also build relationships with Eaton’s internal operations and product lines to support customers and grow sales.

In this function you will:

Consult with customers in different market verticals and provide solutions to problems and pain points
Maintain regional responsibility for all services orders activity in Eaton’s market segments
Train and empower channel partners and manufacturing agents to sell services to end customers and contractors
Be a subject matter expert on the services offering for the rest of Eaton’s electrical sales organization to support and coach the organization in your region on selling services
Act as the voice of the customer to Eaton’s services operations and marketing teams, ensuring high customer service and satisfaction
Collect, analyze and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences and buying habits
Prepare and present quotations to customers
Develop market-based growth strategies to ensure sustained success of Eaton’s services product lines

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
Minimum three (3) years of field service or electrical industry experience
Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license
No relocation assistance will be provided for this role. Candidates must currently reside within Arkansas. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
Previous electrical sales experience
Previous services experience

Skills:

Possess excellent communication skills
Knowledge of key customers and ability to grow relationships at those customers in multiple levels of the organization
Ability to assess customer needs, provide clear, competitive quotations and overcome customer objections to win and grow the business
Demonstrates understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors
Ability to leverage support personnel to meet customer needs and work cross functionally in the organization to serve customers
Knowledge of Eaton electrical product and service capabilities and ability to solution sell to meet customer needs
Effective implementation of Eaton’s internal sales process
Effective interpersonal and teamwork skills
Time management, presentation and planning skills
Ability to travel up to 25%