Eaton's North American Sales division is currently seeking an Senior Sales Engineer to join its team. This role will be based in Salt Lake City, UT, and will focus on residential power distribution solutions in the Salt Lake City and Las Vegas areas. Relocation assistance is available for candidates who reside outside of a 50-mile radius of this location. This is a great opportunity for a motivated sales professional.

What you'll do:

The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in targeted market areas. This position will be responsible to achieve the assigned sales goal consistent with the expectations of a thoroughly seasoned professional sales engineer for the assigned product categories while under little supervision. It will be an expectation to optimize sales volume, product mix and profit margin, while increasing sales in the marketplace. This position will need to coordinate sales for the assigned customer and distributor base. It has the responsibility to manage all aspects of the customer relationship, providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, customers, end users, and specifiers.

The primary functions include: providing sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users and Electrical Group personnel; provide timely and accurate information for order entry, while elevating quality issues to attention of management, and ensuring that accurate information flows to market intelligence data on competitive products, customer needs preference and buying habits; support distributor inventories and inventory turns by recommending specific products and levels to be stocked; and provide necessary reports and surveys requested in a timely manner.

Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It's where bold, bright professionals like you.

In this function you will:
• You will accurate and timely planning and specification interpretation, quotation, and technical support
• You will communicate with customers, warehouse, and plants to facilitate problem resolution
• You will collect, analyze, and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences, and buying habits
• You will review and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications
• You will provide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedure for resolution
• You will be aware of and responsive to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisions
• You will plan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton's position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals;
• You will prepare and present bids and quotations to customers using company price and delivery guidelines while using sound business judgment.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum three (3) year of experience in sales or within the electrical industry
• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver's license
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Skills:
• Knowledge of key customers within sales territories
• Time management, presentation, and planning skills
• Commands knowledge of Eaton Electrical product and service capabilities and can assemble standard offerings to meet customer needs with occasional internal oversight
• Possesses an understanding of the sales process using sales techniques as evidenced by good customer relationships
• Skilled in Bidmanager and Vista
• Demonstrated and understanding of market trends, industry issues and knowledge of competitors
• Effective interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Ability to leverage support personnel to meet customer and organizational needs

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates' privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $107,500 - $157,500

Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.