Fire Alarm Sales Engineer

Certasitepro

Greensburg (Westmoreland County)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonuses starting at $1,000
Comprehensive medical plan options,包括d
401K plan with company match
Generous paid time off, paid holidays,
Company giveaways
Opportunities for community service
Mission-driven company
Growth into new markets and products

Job summary

CertaSite is a fast-growing fire protection and life safety company. We are seeking a Sales Engineer to join a strong sales team that values collaboration, communication and transparency. You will explain complex products to customers and support the sales process from presentation to close.

The role reports to a Regional Sales Manager and requires 7-10 years of industry sales experience, including fire alarm systems. Travel to customer sites will be required as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred or equivalent education and work experience.
  • 7-10 years of progressive technical and industry sales experience.
  • Must have experience in Fire Alarm Industry sales.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations explaining products or services to existing and prospective customers and contractors.
  • Collaborate with sales team to understand customer and contractor requirements and provide sales support.
  • Help clients solve problems with installed equipment.
  • Recommend improved materials or machinery to customers, showing how changes will lower costs and increase production.
  • Understand how to interpret prints and drawings
  • Follow the established sales strategy, processes and programs to shift prospects into new customers within the CertaSite CRM platform
  • Develop fire and life safety solutions that are a fit for each targeted prospect
  • Demonstrate time management to focus on activities that increase quota realization and EBITDA growth
  • Maintain awareness of competition and buyers’ purchasing decisions
  • Drive revenue to CertaSite through prospects by selling solutions
  • Help professionalize the Company’s go-to-market strategy and sales function
  • Facilitate optimization of gross margin throughout the organization
  • Partner with marketing to keep the value proposition current
  • Gather information to make informed recommendations
  • Persuasively sell ideas to gain support and buy-in
  • Use communication techniques to gain cooperation in negotiations
  • Remain resolute under stress and leverage contacts for market insights
  • Balance new requests with established priorities

Skills

Sales experience
Fire alarm industry sales

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact?

Careers at CertaSite

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We are looking for a Sales Engineer, who will join a strong sales team that values collaboration, communication and transparency. Sales Engineers will specialize in technologically and scientifically advanced products and services. They will use their technical skills to explain the benefits of our solutions to new and existing customers. This role reports to a Regional Sales Manager.

COMPANY PERKS
  • Referral bonuses starting at $1,000 per referral
  • Comprehensive medical plan options, including dental and vision
  • 401K plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
  • Company giveaways
  • Opportunities for community service and charity involvement
  • Work at a mission-driven company, focused on people
  • Continued growth and expansion into new markets and products and services
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations explaining products or services to existing and prospective customers and contractors.
  • Collaborate with sales team to understand customer and contractor requirements and provide sales support.
  • Help clients solve problems with installed equipment.
  • Recommend improved materials or machinery to customers, showing how changes will lower costs and increase production.
  • Understand how to interpret prints and drawings
  • Follow the established sales strategy, processes and programs to shift prospects into new customers within the CertaSite Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform
  • Develop fire and life safety solutions that are a fit for each targeted prospect
  • Demonstrate efficient time management by spending time on activities that increase the chance of quota realization with a concern for EBITDA expansion, while also being value and mission driven
  • Maintain the pulse on competition, as well as understand how the buyers of CertaSite products and services make purchasing decisions
  • Drive revenue to CertaSite through prospects by establishing and selling solutions through the CertaSite platform of products and services
  • Establish scale and profitability by helping professionalize the Company’s go-to-market strategy and sales function
  • Facilitate optimization of gross margin throughout the organization
  • Partner with marketing to ensure the CertaSite value proposition and selling “story” remains relevant
  • Gather all information needed to make informed recommendations
  • Persuasively sell ideas to gain support and buy-in
  • Use various communication techniques to gain cooperation in a negotiation
  • Demonstrate the ability to remain resolute and resilient under stress
  • Leverage contacts to stay informed of new company developments
  • Balance new requests with established priorities
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred or equivalent education and work experience
  • 7-10 years of progressive technical and industry sales experience
  • Must have experience in Fire Alarm Industry sales
IDEAL QUALITIES
  • Experience driving revenue and helping build strong GTM strategies
  • Demonstrated track record of uncovering opportunities and advancing prospect opportunities to close by following a prescribed selling campaign process
  • Strong orientation to delivering winning outcomes and possessing an emotional engine that is contagiously felt throughout the organization
  • Proficiency in identifying high value prospects, running a disciplined sales campaign and converting prospects into CertaSite customers
Who are we?

CertaSite is a fast-growing fire protection and life safety company. Fire and life safety is our passion. It’s all we think about. We leverage our hard-earned expertise to give people peace of mind, confidence, and more time to pursue their core businesses. Since 2018, we have grown from four to 18 markets while serving more than 30,000 customers throughout the Midwest.

As we grow and expand into new markets, we are building a team that loves what they do and has fun doing it. If you are looking to be challenged every day, for an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, and to grow with a mission- and people-driven company focused on the customer, we hope you will consider this amazing opportunity.

Our Mission:

To provide a meaningful impact to as many lives as possible.

Our Vision:

To be the most dependable and simplified life safety solution on the planet.

Our Values:
  • Passionate – We are on a relentless pursuit to be great, not just good enough. And we have fun doing it.
  • Impactful – Our work makes a real difference in the world. We literally save lives, but that’s just the beginning.
  • Innovative – We believe there is always a better way. We don’t stop until we find it.
  • Genuine – We do what we say, and we mean it. We are authentic and dependable.
WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Controlled climate, office environment, l local travel as needed; no overnight travel required, v isit customer locations and may have meetings in field settings, required to sit for long periods of time, eight hours or more per day and being frequently required to use monitor, keyboard, and phone

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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