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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.\nWhat you'll do:\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nIn this function you will:\nDevelop and execute sales plans to meet performance expectations and requirements\nQuote projects and negotiate correct required pricing\nPrepare sales presentations to create product understanding and awareness\nBuild relationships with key customers to enhance long-term business prospects\nWork with factories to resolve technical issues while working with customers to resolve quality issues\nCanvas the market to gain insight and adjust to ever changing pricing and delivery requirements\nAssist team to develop a coordinated sales effort while keeping management informed of market conditions\nObtain ongoing training on both functional and technical skills\nQualifications:\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution OR High School Diploma or GED and Journeyman’s Electrician License\nMinimum three 3 years of experience in B2B sales, channel sales, business development, account management, sales engineering, product management, or related technical or commercial roles.\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 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.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering\nSkills:\nPosition Criteria:\nPossess excellent communication skills\nMust be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future\nAbility to respond to a variety of circumstances while continuing to demonstrate superior selling skills for important customer services and applications\nElectrical product knowledge\nAbility to provide technical solutions built around customer needs\nSkilled in time management\nPossess negotiating skills while understanding and using techniques needed to close orders\nExperience with preparing sales proposals that meet customer expectations\nRobust presentation & training skills\nExperience utilizing value-added selling techniques\nStrong work ethic, competitiveness, willingness to learn and adept at building relationships\nExperience working with Bidmanager and Vista\nAbility to travel up to 25%\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 $107,250 - $157,300.\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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