Sales Engineer at Addison Group Lake Zurich, IL
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.