Electrical Sales Engineer

- Manage and interpret both new and existing customer requirements – to understand, anticipate and practically meet their needs.
- Offer customers a product or service that best satisfies their needs in terms of technical specification, quality, price, and delivery, for your range of products.
- Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product education to new and existing customers.
- Calculate accurate and competitive sales quotations and prepare tenders, proposals, designs and technical documents to meet customer deadlines.
- Follow up quotations in a timely manner to secure profitable orders.
- Negotiate contract terms and conditions to meet both customer and business needs.
- Offer after-sales service and support to develop and grow long-term relationships with new and existing customers.
- Build close relations with key suppliers to develop in-depth knowledge of your product range and to understand new product developments.
- Solve customer problems in terms of technical solutions and design of custom-made products.
- Analyze costs of sales, to be able to make informed pricing recommendations for core and new business opportunities, and propositions in emerging markets.
- Prepare pricing and sales reports to contribute to the overall business strategy, including use of benchmarking to gauge market levels accurately.
- Attend and actively contribute to Sales meetings to keep colleagues informed about customers and your product range.
- Attending occasional site visits and customer meetings in order to provide technical expertise for your product range.
- Maintain appropriate levels of sales literature, instruction manuals, certification booklets and evaluation reports for your product range.