Sales Engineer (Midwest/St. Louis/Kansas City)

708 Xomox PFT Corp.; Cincinnati (OH); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane ChemPharma & Energy Flow Solutions is seeking a Sales Engineer to drive profitable sales within a defined U.S. territory from a home office. You will target end users, EPCs, OEMs, and distributors, coordinating with the customer service and management teams.

Required: a bachelor's degree in a technical field, business, or marketing, plus at least 2 years outside sales experience, strong communication skills, and travel up to 60%. Proficiency with MS Office and Salesforce is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, business or marketing.
• Minimum 2 years Outside Sales with distributors, contractors, and/or end users.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to quickly build relationships.
• Ability to differentiate products and win MRO and project orders versus competition.
• Strong listening skills with the ability to translate into customer solutions.
• High energy team player and capable of travel (60%).
• Proficient with MS Office and Web Apps.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales of Crane products within defined territory to achieve profitable growth.
• Identify key influencers at target accounts and develop sales strategies.
• Champion Crane Business System and use tools as standard work.
• Collaborate with Key Account Team for Target End Users in refining/chemical industries.
• Drive MRO sales and develop conversion accounts.
• Identify and manage projects in territory using CRM tools.
• Maintain deep product knowledge and value proposition for applications.
• Assist in New Product Development and sales integration with Target End Users and Channel.

Skills

Outside Sales

Territory sales

Customer relationship management

Communication skills

MS Office (Excel/Outlook/Word/PowerPt)

CRM Salesforce

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field, business or marketing

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Crane Business System (CBS)

MS Office Suite

Job description

Business Unit & Position Summary: Crane ChemPharma & Energy Flow Solutions is a division within the Fluid Handling Business Segment of Crane Co, a US multi-nationa which specializes in highly engineered products in niche markets. Crane ChemPharma & Energy Flow Solutions designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a range of process valves and actuators under multiple brand names for a wide range of applications in a number of industries including the refinery, chemical, biopharmaceutical, and energy industries.

The Sales Engineer is a key contributor with the responsibility of sales and margins for a territory within a defined geographic region for Crane ChemPharma & Energy. This individual contributor role will be ultimately responsible for preference of our products into the assigned market customers including end users, EPC's, OEM's, and other users of the Crane products. Additionally, this role is responsible for channel development, product training, applications training, sales forecasting, project execution, sales planning, sales, margin, and other functions as outlined by Sales Management. This individual will work closely with customer service, business line management, and other Sales Engineers. This interaction can be global in nature as many projects require interaction with other regions of the world. This remote role which operates from a home office with preferred Southeast locations of St. Louis, MO or Kansas City, MO.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Drive sales of all Crane ChemPharma & Energy products within defined geographic territory to achieve profitable growth.
• Identify key influencers at Target Key Accounts and End Users to develop and implement sales strategies aligning our value propositions for their applications.
• Become champion of Crane Business System (CBS) and use the tools as part of standard work to achieve results.
• Work closely with Key Account Team within Crane to develop strategies for Target End Users in Refining and Chemical Industries.
• Drive execution of MRO business and develop conversion accounts.
• Identify and Manage projects in territory through IIR (Industrial Info Resources) and the Global Project Tracker (Salesforce CRM) tool from the Crane Business System.
• Maintain a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the product line and the value proposition within specific applications.
• Assist Business Line Managers in New Product Development and sales integration with Target End Users and Channel.
• Develop sales forecast for each product line to assist Business Line Managers with production.
• Monitor and report competitive landscape within territory for all CPE products.
• Conduct lunch and learns for distribution channels, end users, and EPC's as required.
• Manage territory within the guidelines of budgets, reporting, and distribution management.

Qualifications / Experience / Personal characteristics:

• Bachelor's degree in technical field, business or marketing.
• Minimum 2 years Outside Sales managing similar product with distributors, contractors, and/or end users.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to quickly build relationships.
• Knowledge of how to create a product differentiation, value proposed, product advantage to win MRO and project orders versus competition.
• Strong listening skills with the ability to assimilate information and translate it into customer solutions.
• High energy team player and competitor.
• Competent with basic use of MS products (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) & various Web Apps.
• Accomplish all tasks as appropriately assigned or requested.
• Must be able to travel day and night. (Est. 60% in territory). Must be capable of air travel.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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Crane Company. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. At Crane, we believe that attracting and retaining the highest quality people is the best insurance of success. Our goal is to recruit talented people and train them within a culture that calls for performance with trust and respect. Join us. The unique backgrounds and differences of our associates make us stronger, more capable, and more successful. Beyond an associate's base compensation, we reward and reinforce wellbeing with a compelling package of both cash and non-cash benefits, including comprehensive health, wellness incentives, assistance with retirement savings, paid time off, paid holidays, and tuition reimbursement — as well as performance-based bonus programs for certain positions. Crane prioritizes career development for our associates. All associates receive an annual development plan that includes a mixture of on-the-job coaching and formal training experiences to support individual development needs. We firmly believe in associate growth that supports career progression and we will proactively support your ongoing career development.