Sales Engineer

SUMMARY:
A well establish company specialising in underground mining equipment based in Boksburg is looking for an on the ball Sales Engineer.

POSITION INFO:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Engineering.
• Essential: Excellent technical knowledge with a savvy for sales.  
• Essential: Previous mining experience.

Duties and responsibilities

• Maintain customer relationships.
• Management of Key customer relationships.
• Developing solutions to solve mining production and safety problems by profitably selling the company’s capital equipment and service products.
• Achieve established sales targets and goals, including margins with accurate achievable forecasts.
• To commit to, develop, grow and achieve established sales targets, understand the customer buying cycles and forecast future sales.
• Agree to and accept the executive responsibility with accountability for allocated key customer relationships, maintaining effective and reliable long-term relations.
• Assume the lead project management role in developing and managing service and product support interventions including product trials and performance tests etc.
• Know the products thoroughly, their applications, features, benefits to develop sound value propositions.
• Commit to and take responsibility for ensuring aftermarket product support with each Key customer, attend regular engineering meetings and become involved in the project management of service and aftermarket support initiatives and approved sales strategies.
• Visit underground operations.
• Optimise existing sales and pursue new sales opportunities.
• Monitor customer base and seek new profitable sales opportunities.
• Understand opposition pricing, relationships, sales and service practices, any advantages they offer over our goods and services.
• Develop an opposition data base and SWOT analysis of the business for discussion and counter strategy initiatives.
• Manage all your customer debt and outstanding debtors on a monthly basis.
• Institute audit processes
• Adhere and administer the company warranty procedure

Closing Date:

Submissions for this vacancy will close on 20 Augustus 2021, however you will still have the opportunity to submit your CV for this position till 4 September 2021.

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