Position : Solution Engineer / Technical Sales
Base Location : Italy (Milan preferred)
Alternatively, Benelux / Germany / Japan / Spain / Nordic
A. Main Purpose of the Role
- Responsible for pre-sales technical support, bidding support and other work.
- Responsible for the application design of photovoltaic / energy storage system.
- Compile Photovoltaic and Energy Storage system technical proposal according to different product types.
- Lead conversation with customers and participate in technical marketing activities.
- Lead conversation with local technical partners / suppliers and coordinate internal resources to complete integrations.
- Collect user requirements, industry trends, technology evolution, and organize the integration of technical solutions.
- Customer on-site Service such as on-site training, system commissioning and pre-start work.
B. Duties and Responsibilities
1. Project
- Support Sales Team and coordinate with product team to define technical solutions.
- Creation of technical proposal including system description, scope of work, product specifications.
- Tracking the status of project status and progress.
- Creation of Maintenance Procedures for Mars Renewable scope for supply equipment
- Project technical and economic study, bidding strategy defining.
- Provide on-site training services and technical support on system commissioning & pre-start work.
2. Customer
- Provide technical support upon request from commercial team to help the success of product sales.
- Perform technical sales activities and Interface directly with customers to answer questions and resolve issues.
- Develop and maintain the customer relationship on the technical interface, influence the key personnel of technical decision-making.
- Perform feasibility studies on BESS project and present the analysis to customers.
3. Market
- Collect feedbacks on the typical application cases of Mars product to support case study and publicity planning.
- Perform product launching activities, and supports the exhibition, forum and other marketing activities.
4. Product
- Collect customer and market feedback on Mars product, propose suggestions on product function and performance optimization, and provide input for product planning.
- Collect information such as market demand change, technical trend, competitor's product technical analysis, technical marketing activity planning and implementation plan.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis on system failures.
5. Capability building
- Self-professional ability improvement, internal experience sharing, sales training, etc.
C. Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in electrical engineering, electronic technology, power system, automation or related science and engineering.
- More than 3 years of relevant industry experience is preferred; Presales technical position or more than 1 year of pre-sales related experience in the field of Photovoltaic System, Electric System, Power Electronics.
- Basic knowledge of photovoltaic system and Energy storage system and design capability of product application; Familiar with product solution process and relevant business processes.
- Strong organization and excellent time management skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Automation, SCADA programming experience is preferred.
- Power systems Design (e.g. Power System Analysis, Power system protection, Grid analysis) is preferred.
- Energy Storage working experience is preferred.
- An understanding of variable frequency drives (AC & DC) and their applications is preferred.
- Experience in product development and design and familiarity with relevant simulation software (such as PVsyst, Matlab, Digsilent or PSS / E) are preferred.