Eaton is currently seeking a Specialist Services Sales Engineer to join their team. This is a hybrid-based position and candidates must reside within 50 miles of our New York, NY location to be considered for this role. Relocation assistance will be offered for successful applicants who live outside this location. This role will cover the local territory of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, Orange County, and Rockland County. If you are you driven professional looking for a long-term career within a global organization, look no further and apply today!

What you’ll do:

The primary function of the Lead Sales Engineer is to sell Eaton’s electrical services offering to industrial, utility, commercial, data center and institutional customers in the targeted market areas. In doing so, the Lead Sales Engineer will manage the customer relationship, providing sales support and technical expertise to distributors, end users, contractors and specifiers. You will also build relationships with Eaton’s internal operations and product lines to support customers and grow sales.

In this function you will:

• Consult with customers in different market verticals and provide solutions to problems and pain points

• Maintain regional responsibility for all services orders activity across all Eaton’s market segments

• Train and empower General/Industrial sales teams, channel partners to sell services to end customers and contractors

• Be a subject matter expert on the services offering for the rest of Eaton’s electrical sales organization to support and coach the organization in your region on selling Services

• Act as the voice of the customer to Eaton’s services operations and marketing teams, ensuring high customer service and satisfaction

• Collect, analyze and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences and buying habits

• Prepare and present complex quotations to customers

• Develop market-based growth strategies to ensure sustained success of Eaton’s services product lines

• Train and mentor new team members as the come onboard

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution

• Minimum seven (7) years of field service or electrical industry experience

• Possess a valid driver’s license

• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous electrical sales experience

Position Criteria:

• Possess excellent communication skills

• Knowledge of key customers and ability to grow relationships at those customers in multiple levels of the organization

• Ability to assess customer needs, provide clear, competitive quotations and overcome customer objections to win and grow the business

• Demonstrates understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors

• Ability to leverage support personnel to meet customer needs and work cross functionally in the organization to serve customers

• Knowledge of Eaton electrical product and service capabilities and ability to solution sell to meet customer needs

• Effective implementation of Eaton’s internal sales process

• Effective interpersonal and teamwork skills

• Time management, presentation, and planning skills

• Ability to travel up to 10%

The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $166,500.00 - 244,200.00

Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.