Strategic Solutions Consultant (Travel)

Map Your Show, LLC; Lafayette, Northern (IN, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineering Innovation, Inc. in Lafayette, Indiana seeks a Consultative Sales Representative who acts as a technical advisor to clients while closing deals.

You will collaborate with the engineering team to design customized solutions and travel to customer sites as needed. Travel is expected up to 40% with a base salary plus commission; earnings can exceed $100,000 based on performance and ROI delivered to clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management.
• Background in warehouse automation, hardware, software, and business process.
• Experience in product customization and solution-focused design.
• Customer-centric focus.
• Ability to represent company well at networking events.
• Ability to work as a team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent autonomous problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Familiarity with the postal/package processing industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Reach out to new prospective clients to start engage in a discussion of their operations and needs.
• Develop professional business relationships with clients by proactively making phone calls, attending trade shows, and establishing a follow-up process.
• Travel to customer sites to evaluate needs and provide consultation, identify areas of potential improvement in their operations.
• Prompt earnest and ongoing discussion with clients to understand their needs and develop customized solutions.
• Document prospective client processes and improvement areas to present to EII team with the purpose of developing solutions collaboratively.
• Listen to, understand, and convey customer requirements.
• Ideate and design creative solutions to assist the customer in productivity improvement.
• Assist in the generation of customized or customized-off-the-shelf solutions on behalf of clients, based on opportunities for improvement to current processes, that is agreeable by all parties.
• Create project proposals, timelines, and manage projects by coordinating between different teams.
• Attend trade shows and make new customer contacts, follow up on leads.
• Attend and participate in trade association events.
• Keep oneself accountable to set and achieve goals.
• Take responsibility for goals, decisions, and actions.
• Define, justify, and document proposed methodology for prospective solution(s).
• Prepare and deliver presentations on various topics/activities/solutions, both internally and for clients.
• Collaborate with management and other departments to determine cost of solution; estimate quotes.
• Understand and establish return on investment for prospective customers.
• Prepare weekly reports describing follow-up activity, presentations, and new opportunities.

Skills

Project management

Warehouse automation

Product customization

Solution design

Customer focus

Networking events

Team player

Fast-paced

Problem solving

Communication skills

Industrial automation

Job description

Engineering Innovation, Inc. in Lafayette, Indiana seeks a Consultative Sales Representative who acts as a technical advisor to clients while closing deals.

You will collaborate with the engineering team to design customized solutions and travel to customer sites as needed. Travel is expected up to 40% with a base salary plus commission; earnings can exceed $100,000 based on performance and ROI delivered to clients.