Remote Office Location : Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy preferred
Business Function / Department : Industrial Systems / Port Solutions
Sales Territory, if applicable : EMEA
General Role Description
Develop and implement commercial and technical strategies for current and potential clients in the port solutions industry segment on a rolling 18-month cycle to deliver orders budget.
Role Accountabilities
- Identify, establish contact, and develop relationships with a network of purchase influencers within current and potential client organizations to position the Company to bid for their new opportunities.
- Identify technical client needs and engage internal resources to ensure integration of commercial offerings with client expectations.
- Develop and implement sales and business plans and strategies at strategic accounts.
- Create and lead the tactical plan for pursuing projects at approved accounts.
- Build industry and client awareness of the Company's products and services via presentations at conferences, trade shows and at client meetings.
- Develop and communicate opportunity forecasts and sales plans to Business Unit and Company management.
- Provide guidance in the preparation, review, and final commercial proposal generation to client.
- Prepare and deliver presentations at technical conferences and meetings with clients, at client sites, as assigned.
- Utilize successful order closing strategies to secure orders.
- Effectively position the Company's products and services as the solution to client needs.
- Assess and report opportunity risks, as appropriate to the opportunity.
- Provide pre-sales technical assistance to clients and partners, such as reviewing written proposals and specifications, and conducting product and service presentations.
- Identify, resolve, and communicate resolution on customer issues, escalating unresolved issues to immediate manager.
- Produce and maintain records of opportunities, proposals, contracts, projects, and business activities per corporate guidelines.
- Provide timely updates on sales activity, performance, integration of corporate business project processes, market trends, project status, and client relationship issues to business unit and Company management.
- Identify opportunities and provide recommendations to business unit for improvements in sales management processes.
- Identify and recommend new and / or enhanced products or service feature needs by soliciting feedback from clients, monitoring industry trends, and tracking the competitive environment to drive business growth.
- Feedback product and service concerns to appropriate management for continuous improvement.
- Review sales literature for technical accuracy.
- Provide technical guidance in the preparation, review, and final commercial proposal generation to clients.
- Track competitor's offerings, assess client situations, and propose competitive options applicable to the client's individual needs.
- Lead contract negotiations as assigned.
- Travel to client locations, both locally and regionally, in support of sales opportunities.
General Employee Accountabilities
- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager.
- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified.
- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager.
- Exemplify Company Core Values : Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment.
- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and law.
- Recommend viable improvements proactively.
- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent via education and / or work experience.
- 5 years' technical sales, technical customer service, or application engineering experience in a commercial environment.
- 2 years' experience in technical sales, technical client service, project support, or application engineering experience in a commercial environment.
- Demonstrated experience in business-to-business sales in port solutions.
- Demonstrated experience supporting clients in the port industry.
- Demonstrated experience with industry procurement processes.
- Demonstrated experience with client specifications review, proposal development.
- Demonstrated success in achieving annual orders budget.
- Demonstrated presentation skills.
- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility.
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 50%, with limited notice.
- Ability to climb and work on cranes at heights up to approximately 175 feet.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 years' experience with drive, control, and automation systems in the crane systems industry segment.
- Demonstrated success achieving annual orders budgets of $8M-$12M.
- Demonstrated success closing solutions contracts in excess of $3M.
- Successful existing relationships with purchase influencers at TMEIC client and potential client organizations.
- Proficiency with a CRM tool.
- Fluency in language(s) spoken in assigned geographic area.
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