Sales Engineer

Addison Group • $65K — $100K *
Lake Zurich, IL 60047In-Person
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical
  • 1+ year of sales experience with outbound business development efforts
  • Experience with hardware product sales
  • Strong relationship-building skills
  • Ability to adapt to evolving sales strategies

Responsibilities

  • Engage in warm and cold outreach to develop client relationships
  • Manage existing accounts while seeking new business opportunities
  • Promote and market engineering products to target industries
  • Build and maintain a sales pipeline for future product launches
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to align product offerings with customer needs

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career advancement to VP Sales
  • Potential for hybrid work schedule after initial employment phase
  • Travel opportunities for customer engagements across the U.S.
Full Job Description
Title: Sales Engineer

Location: Northern Chicago Suburbs

Compensation: $65,000 - 100,000 + commission

No sponsorship available

Role Overview
  • General Overview: We are looking for a permanent inside sales representative who can help our client market new engineering products and services to expand into new market segments as they roll out industry leading products. In the near term, this candidate will be taking over communicating to some of our current in-house accounts and help push our products to current and new customers as they are developed. Long term, this position may transition into a VP Sales role where they will be responsible for building a nation-wide sales network for our products in our focus industries of HVAC-R and Electrical/BMS.
  • The beginning of the role will be a lot of warm/cold outreach and pipeline building. First deal expected to take about 8 months.
  • This role is a much heavier sales than technical role.

Critical Skills/Technologies:
  • Engineering Degree (Electrical preferred)
  • At least one year of experience in sales role that involved outbound business development efforts (internship experience is okay)
  • Likable and capable of building relationships with customers

Desired Skills/Technologies:
  • Experience selling hardware products (not software / SaaS)

Experience/Degree/Certifications Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. Electrical Engineering preferred

Office Status:
  • On site M-F, hybrid flexibility can be offered further into employment. Travel to customers in the US required.

About Addison Group

Addison Group is a professional staffing and consulting firm that provides services in the areas of information technology, finance and accounting, healthcare, human resources, and administration. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Addison Group has over 2500 employees and operates in 22 locations across the United States. The company has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private staffing firms in the United States by Inc. Magazine.
Learn more about Addison Group
Size
2,500 employees
Industry
Staffing
Founded
1999
* Ladders Estimates

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