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Sales Manager-Downhole Technology

Crunchbase$130K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
  • Minimum of 5 years of technical sales experience in oilfield services or upstream oil and gas.
  • Strong knowledge of directional drilling and formation evaluation, including downhole sensors and measurement technologies.
  • Proven success in customer development and deal closure with strong revenue results.
  • Strong capabilities in forecasting, business analytics, and pipeline management.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills for engaging diverse stakeholders.
  • Effective cross-functional leadership and influence abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute business-development strategy and market vision.
  • Drive sales growth across the Downhole Technology portfolio, meeting profitability targets.
  • Build and maintain influential customer relationships to anticipate needs.
  • Leverage technical knowledge to guide customers in selecting appropriate technologies.
  • Lead the qualification and execution of deals, ensuring profitability and customer satisfaction.
  • Maintain accurate sales forecasts and manage CRM reporting effectively.
  • Monitor market conditions and provide insights to inform business strategies.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and exposure to diverse projects.
  • Access to training and professional development programs.
  • Flexible travel schedule to meet customer needs and support business execution.
Full Job Description
OPPORTUNITY

You will define and execute the long-term commercial vision for an important market at the product-line level, while leading business-development planning and growth initiatives. You will own customer development and sales execution for Reuter-Stokes Downhole Technology portfolio, including neutron, gamma, and directional sensors used across the upstream oil and gas industry.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Market Strategy and Business Development - Develop the market vision, strategic account priorities, and business-development plan for the assigned geography and customer portfolio. Translate market trends, customer needs, competitive activity, and product-line strategy into actionable growth plans and account objectives.
• Sales Growth and Commercial Performance - Sell products, services, solutions, and projects across the Downhole Technology portfolio. Drive orders and convertibility while meeting or exceeding sales and profitability targets. Develop qualified leads, expand the customer portfolio, advance opportunities, and build sustainable backlog and volume growth.
• Customer and Key Account Leadership - Develop strong, influential relationships across assigned customer organizations. Build a detailed understanding of each customer's business model, technology roadmap, operating priorities, and support expectations. Use these relationships to anticipate needs, improve customer outcomes, support account retention, and identify new opportunities.
• Technical Sales and Solution Development - Apply thorough technical knowledge of directional drilling, formation evaluation, MWD/LWD, wireline systems, and downhole sensors to guide customer discussions. Help customers select appropriate technology, develop specifications, resolve technical issues, and connect operating requirements with product capabilities and accurate operating parameters.
• Opportunity, Pricing, and Deal Execution - Lead opportunities from qualification through order entry in coordination with Commercial Operations and other stakeholders. Support solution configurations, pricing, negotiation, and closure while maintaining focus on value, profitability, execution feasibility, and customer commitments. Ensure Inquiry-to-Order and Order-to-Remittance teams have current and accurate opportunity information.
• Forecasting and Sales Discipline - Maintain accurate account, pipeline, order, and sales forecasts on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Keep CRM and required sales reports current, identify forecast risks and conversion gaps, and implement recovery actions where needed.
• Market Intelligence and Voice of the Customer - Continuously monitor market conditions, competitors, customer strategies, operating factors, and technology trends. Provide reliable market intelligence and the voice of the customer to support product, investment, pricing, new-product introduction, and business decisions.
• Cross-Functional Leadership - Connect and coordinate with Product Line Management, Engineering, Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Quality, Services, and other functional teams to achieve growth objectives. Coordinate factory technical support, customer specifications, product support needs, repairs, warranty matters, and other execution requirements.
• Travel - Travel as required to maintain customer coverage, support opportunities, and execute responsibilities across the assigned geography.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Education - Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
• Oil & Gas Sales Experience - Minimum of 5 years of sales experience, including demonstrated success in technical sales, account management, or business development within the oilfield services or upstream oil and gas industry.
• Directional Drilling & Formation Evaluation - Knowledge of directional drilling and formation evaluation, including experience with downhole sensors, measurement technologies, and applications used in MWD/LWD and wireline operations.
• Technical & Commercial Acumen - Demonstrated ability to combine technical expertise with commercial sales skills to understand customer operating requirements and develop value-based product and solution recommendations.
• Customer Development & Deal Execution - Proven success building customer relationships, generating opportunities, negotiating contracts, closing business, and delivering revenue and profitability objectives.
• Forecasting & Business Analytics - Strong forecasting, pipeline-management, analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to drive disciplined opportunity management and business planning.
• Communication & Presentation Skills - Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customer, technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Influence & Cross-Functional Leadership - Effective leadership and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, and lead programs or projects without direct authority.

PREFERRED
• Radiation Detection Technologies - Direct experience with neutron, gamma, directional, or other radiation-detection technologies, downhole sensors, measurement systems, or related oilfield instrumentation.
• Business Development & Account Growth - Demonstrated success driving revenue growth, market penetration, and strategic customer relationships with major oilfield service companies and large independent operators.
• Commercial Negotiation & Deal Execution - Experience structuring, pricing, negotiating, and closing complex technical product, service, technology, and solution opportunities while balancing growth, risk, and profitability objectives.
• Product Strategy & Market Development - Experience with strategic planning, product marketing, product positioning, market analysis, or new-product introduction initiatives that support commercial growth and customer adoption.
• Commercial & Operational Leadership - Strong process discipline, customer focus, commercial judgment, integrity, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• CRM & Sales Analytics - Proficiency with Salesforce.com or comparable CRM platforms, including pipeline management, opportunity tracking, forecasting, reporting, and sales-performance analytics.

130k-150k

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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