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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.\nThe 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.\nYou will accurate and timely plan and specify interpretation, quotation, and technical support\nYou will communicate with customers, warehouse, and plants to facilitate problem resolution\nYou will collect, analyze, and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences, and buying habit\nYou will review and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications\nYou will provide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedure for resolution\nYou will be aware of and responsive to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisions\nYou will plan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton’s position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals\nYou will prepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment.\nQualifications:\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution\nMinimum one (1) year of technical or commercial experience\nPossess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license\nAbility to travel 25% of the time\nEaton 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.\nNo relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-miles radius of Pelham, AL will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering\nSkills:\nPosition Success Criteria:\nTime management, presentation, and planning skills\nKnowledge of Eaton Electrical product and service capabilities\nPossesses an understanding of the sales process using sales techniques as evidenced by good customer relationships\nKnowledge of Bidmanager and Vista\nDemonstrated and understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors\nEffective interpersonal and teamwork skills\nAbility to leverage support personnel to meet customer and organizational needs\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nThe compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $84,750 - $124,300\nBase salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. 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