Territory Sales Engineer

Cognex Corporation; Michigan; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognex Corporation is seeking a field Account Manager in the United States (Michigan) to drive machine vision solutions sales. You will forecast and close opportunities with end users, partners, and OEMs, using Cognex's sales process to win large strategic deals and expand market presence in Michigan.

The role requires a technical degree or equivalent, a proven sales background in automation, and the ability to travel about 40% of the time.

Qualifications

• Proven sales performance in automation or similar industry.
• Experience selling technical products to all organizational levels.
• Experience in selling vision products preferred.
• Travel up to 40% required.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and close vision solution opportunities with End Users, Partners, and OEMs to reach quota.
• Demonstrate Cognex products using the defined sales process to win large strategic opportunities.
• Follow up on leads, schedule customer visits, and pursue large opportunities.
• Collaborate with counterparts across territories and coordinate with applications engineering.
• Maintain and update project information in Sales Book and support trade shows.

Skills

Sales excellence

Solution selling

Territory management

Travel 40%

Independent worker

MS Windows proficiency

Education

Technical Degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description The Company Many of the largest and most sophisticated companies in the world rely on the machine vision solutions and products from Cognex. Cognex is one of the most respected and successful companies in factory automation with a track record of delivering continuous business growth and solid financial results over the 40+ years of company history. We spend about 15% of our revenue in R&D maintaining our leadership in related technologies. We are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast-paced, creative environment of a startup. Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work seriously but don't take themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun and rewarding environment.

Essential Functions:

• Properly forecast and close vision solutions opportunities with End Users, Partners, and OEMs to reach the quota goal.
• Utilize the Cognex sales process to effectively demonstrate products to customers and winning large strategic opportunities.
• Follows up on sales leads and schedules customer visits, seeking out large opportunities.
• Effectively conducts customer visits in a solution sales environment.
• Collaborate with counterparts from other territories on opportunities that are either integrated or installed in a different territory or where the decision makers do not reside in the Account Manager’s territory.
• Follow up on customer inquiries, understand system requirements, and differentiate the Cognex solution.
• Assists at trade shows and other marketing events.
• Coordinate evaluations utilizing the Applications Engineering team.
• Maintain and continuously update project information in Sales Book.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven track record of sales performance in the automation or similar industry.
• Proven track record of operating in a solutions sales environment.
• Uses defined sales process to deliver desired results on a consistent basis.
• PC literate with a working knowledge of MS Windows applications.
• Ability to travel 40% of the time is required.
• Ability to work independently is required.

Minimum education and work experience required:

• Technical Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proven sales experience and a good track record for exceeding sales targets is required.
• Experience in selling technical products to all levels of an organization is required.
• Experience in selling vision products is also preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Cognex is the largest, most successful and most recognized global player in industrial machine vision. Using advanced optics, image sensors, and artificial intelligence software Cognex vision and ID systems capture an image, then analyze it to make sense of what’s being seen. Companies use Cognex vision and ID in their manufacturing processes to improve product quality, guide assembly robots, and track items through each stage of production and distribution. Cognex is focused entirely on solving the toughest problems in industrial machine vision and ID, and we have sold more solutions in these areas than any other company in the world. More than a billion products are made each day using Cognex vision. The only thing smarter than our vision and ID systems are the people that stand behind them. One of them could be you!