Sales Specialist
Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México Mexico | Remote
Responsibilities
- This position reports to the Direct Sales Leader and provides commercial/technical sales support for our direct customers/end users to ensure that sales targets are achieved. This Sales Rep will be responsible to develop a market coverage strategy to maximize our sales in the assigned territory. This includes prospection of new customers, maintenance of current customer and recovery of customers lost in the past.
- Needs to achieve sales targets for the BU online with key selling objectives in defined territory.
- Accountable for growing and maintaining existing customers in designated region, plus prospecting and developing new customers to increase market share in our target markets.
- Responsible for all Analytical Solutions product portfolio sales in diverse industries in Mexico.
- Will have to develop long lasting relationships with customers and end users focusing on key target accounts.
- Will interact with different areas of a customer such as end users, procurement, R&D teams and will have to drive conversations providing technical and commercial support accordingly.
- Will interact with different in-house departments such as customer care, finance, sales, service, aftermarket.
- Support the implementation of regional commercial and marketing plans, including tactics to accomplish growth targets.
- Work as a team with our FAS’s to provide a complete solution for our customers.
- Uses tools such as SalesForce CRM to manage a healthy pipeline and forecast in defined territory, as well as strategic data and interactions with customers.
- Ensure that PerkinElmer customers are getting the best post-sales support by keeping close contact with customer and internal BU involved.
- Provides feedback, information, market intelligence and recommendations to improve market penetration and orders growth for Analytical Solutions.
- Activities in cooperation with other various functional groups: Marketing.
- Attend tradeshows in your territory and provide a report at the conclusion of the show.
- Work with FAS and Marketing for specific activities in your sales territory.
- Provide competitive market information.
- Obtain general market intelligence and feed this to sales management and the marketing team.
- Strategic Planning.
Basic Qualifications
- Engineering background (Chemical or biochemical desired).
- Best if fluent in English and Spanish.
- Knowledge in chemical analysis, Chromatography and spectroscopy would be an important differentiation.
- Proficient user/experience with a CRM, preferably Salesforce.com.
- Proficient user of MS Office, in particular Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Desired experience using SAP.
Key Competencies
- Self-Leadership: Builds relationships; Drives for Results; Maximizes time; Makes Ethical Decisions.
- Business Management: Setting Sales Strategy; Making Sales Operations Decisions.
- Technical Knowledge: Knows the Product; Uses Technology; Applies Business Processes.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to draw conclusions and observations from market trends and competitors.
- Strong communication skills.
- Negotiation and Influence.
Experience
- +3 years experience in technical sales in analytical instrumentation/equipment.
- Proficient user/experience with a CRM, preferably Salesforce.com.
- Proficient user of MS Office, in particular Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Ability to develop business, close deals and convert them on purchase orders.
Preferred Characteristics
- Active Learning: Relishes Learning; Assimilates information quickly; Welcomes feedback; Applies Knowledge or skill.
- High Impact Communication: Delivers clear message; Communicates with impact; Use Language appropriately; Ensure understanding; Conveys a professional presence.
- Marshaling Resources: Establishes resource priorities; Determines needed resources; Accesses resources; Prepare partners.
- Stress Tolerance (under pressure or opposition): Maintains Focus; Maintains Relationship; Copes effectively.
- Tenacity: Persist in Efforts; Redirects focus.
- It’s a must to have strong organization and time management skills.
- Demonstrated sales leadership based on intellectual and personal integrity and interpersonal skills.
- Task Variety.
- High Responsibility/Accountability.
- Challenging Work.
- Complexity.
- Travel.
- Practical Results.
- Bias For Action.
- Openness to frequent Change.
- Comfortable in a matrix management environment.
- Car driver's license.
- Available to travel overnight for company business approximately 50-75% of time.
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