Sales Engineer

Gosiger; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

401K with Company Match

Job summary

Gosiger in San Francisco focuses on driving machine tool sales and value-added services to existing customers while actively developing new prospects. This role emphasizes managing territory, delivering solutions, and maintaining strong cross-functional collaboration to achieve revenue and margin targets.

The position requires a strong mechanical aptitude, consultative selling skills, and willingness to travel for customer visits and training sessions to support growth and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years in consultative sales in the machine tool industry
• Strong mechanical/technical aptitude and problem-solving skills
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to travel and obtain a passport for international travel
• Experience with project management and timely follow-up with customers

Responsibilities

• Drive machine tool sales and value-added services to current customers and prospects.
• Manage territory and prospecting efforts to meet annual revenue and margin goals.
• Conduct face-to-face meetings with customers to identify needs and propose Gosiger solutions.
• Maintain strong internal relationships with sales, service, and training teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Provide annual business plans and reports on sales activity and forecasts.

Skills

Machine Tool Sales

Territory Management

Customer Relationship

Consultative Selling

Negotiation

Travel Ready

Project Management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering or related field

Job description

Job Summary

Under general supervision, the incumbent is responsible for driving Machine Tool sales and value-added services to current customers and prospect development. Incumbent is accountable for driving Machine Tool revenue, training revenue, margins, profit, and growth. Incumbent is accountable for account development, management, and develop and maintain strong customer relations. Incumbent interacts with inter-company departments for team support and assistance. Maintains internal relationships ensuring internal/external customer satisfaction.

Essential Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Develops and maintains a strong working knowledge of Machine Tool industry and all products and services sold. Maintains thorough knowledge of competitor products to ensure HFO is on the cutting edge of technology.
• Responsible for prospecting and territory management.
• Responsible for phone prospecting of new potential customers. Activity can be performed while traveling and/or during scheduled office time.
• Responsible for determining customers, and prospects, needs and solutions; maintains daily face to face time with customers/prospects each day. Determines Gosiger’s ability to provide a solution that meets their needs.
• Meets annual quota expectations ensuring acceptable margins and profit; maintain consistent territory market share relative to builder requirements.
• Manages critical projects through installation and ensures customer satisfaction through initial run offs. Ensures continued communications and up to date feedback to/from internal team to customers.
• Maintains a strong teamwork relationship with all internal customers; division sales teams, Service/Rebuild, Applications Engineering, Product Support/Parts, and Training.
• Develops and maintains strong customer relations with current customers and builds relationships with prospects.
• Meets/exceeds assigned annual revenue and profit margin goals.
• Maintains business expenses within budget.
• Performs account management through the Gosiger CRM, Infor, cost estimates/proposals, project management, coordinates schedules, tracking and monitoring, issue follow-up and resolution.
• Manage and maintain a customer/prospect database using the Gosiger CRM, Infor, provides sales forecasts and related reports as required. Reports on customer/call activity weekly and highlights accomplishments and following week sales plan.
• Incumbent ensures timely payment of customer accounts, host customer visits at headquarters or at appropriate supplier site, and perform standard product demonstrations.
• Provides an annual business plan for strategic planning.
• Responsible for maintaining current technical, interpersonal, and communication skills through continuous development. Attends and actively participates in company sales training classes.
• As a member of the Gosiger Sales Team; trains, assists and supports other team members within Gosiger on problem solving and meeting division/company goals. Continuously reviews current processes and searches out improvement methods to improve product/process quality, reduce waste, rework and unnecessary work that adds no value to the work or process.
• Based on business need, assists/supports in other job functions within department, division and/or company within scope and ability. Assumes accountability and responsibility for assigned projects and programs.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering or related field, or the equivalent in experience and formal education/training.
• Minimum 3 years in position of consultative sales in the Machine Tool Industry.
• Must have a strong mechanical/technical aptitude.
• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills. Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making.
• Superior interpersonal communication skills and customer relationship building.
• Demonstrated experience in project management and time management.
• Demonstrated application of basic computer skills.
• Strong initiative, competitive nature, and strong goal orientation. Must have excellent attention to detail.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a valid passport for out-of-the country travel.
• Must be able to drive and have a valid driver’s license with a good driving record.
• Must have or be able to obtain a personal credit card for business expense. Gosiger Inc. reimburses approved expenses weekly via direct deposit.
• Ability to travel by automobile and airplane.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time and walk-through customer manufacturing facilities.

Working Conditions

• Office & manufacturing work environment which includes moving mechanical machine parts, potentially loud equipment, with exposure to a variety of non-hazardous and hazardous chemicals and airborne particles.
• Monitor/screen viewing and key entry; mobile phone, lap top computer, equipment control screens
• Internal/external customer communications with vendor contact
• Some overnight travel with customers for Corporate or Builder visits
• Travel by automobile or airplane
• Frequent Standing

Perks And Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Paid time off and holiday pay
• 401K plan with company matchMaternity and Paternity leave