Automation Sales Engineer

Posted 15hrs ago

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Automation Sales Engineer developing customer portfolios for Festo Vietnam’s industrial automation solutions. Driving virtual consultative sales, contract negotiations, and profitable account growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop assigned customer portfolio from acquisition through retention
  • Achieve sales turnover, profitable growth, market-share, share-of-wallet, customer-satisfaction, and TCO targets
  • Establish and maintain excellent customer relationships through regular virtual visits via video, telephone, and email
  • Build trust and understand customers’ profiles, applications, needs, requirements, decision makers, and influencers
  • Assess customer needs and present product/service features and benefits
  • Achieve milestone targets with customers
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date customer data in Festo information systems
  • Engage in contract renewals, price negotiations, and volume discounts
  • Report relevant activities and developments for customer groups
  • Create action plans and proactive KPI/target plans with the direct manager
  • Coordinate internal resources through team selling to win additional business
  • Identify customer trends, transfer information to the company, and support market development
  • Identify additional business opportunities
  • Represent the brand at customer contacts and maintain written and personal contact with customers and prospects
  • Negotiate relevant customer contracts
  • Coordinate with Sales, Technical Service, and Service Hub teams on customer needs and interdepartmental issues
  • Perform assigned tasks as needed

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Automation, Electrical, Mechatronics Engineering
  • Minimum 5 years in sales with industrial automation or relevant business
  • Good English communication
  • Good computer skills, including Microsoft Office and internal sales platforms
  • Strong performance and problem-solving orientation
  • Openness and flexibility
  • Customer-oriented and analytically strong
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Pro-active attitude
  • Ability to work independently and in a team
  • Highly organized, including in a scale-up environment
  • Result-driven and self-motivated
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Strong negotiation and communication skills
  • Engineering/technical products background and/or first sales experience
  • Experience handling customers directly, ideally in a virtual/digital environment
  • Ideally experience in the pneumatic/electrical product industry
  • Own car and driving license