Sales Application Engineering Manager - Roanoke, United States - TMEIC Corporation Americas

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    Job #

    EM24024
    Job Title

    Sales Application Engineering Manager
    Office Location

    Roanoke, VA Preferred
    Business/Department

    Industrial Systems
    Sales Territory, if applicable

    N/A
    General Role Description
    Develop and maintain a sales application engineering organization capable of meeting Business Unit Mid-Range Plan commitments within a set of capital and human resources over a rolling 1-2 year period
    Role Accountabilities

    Develop and maintain a team of sales application engineers that effectively provides technical expertise, motor and drive system solutions, and technical proposals to OEM and end-user clients in cooperation with the business unit sales force

    Allocate team resources to generate technical proposals, proposal cost analyses, supplier specifications and costs; and attend client meetings

    Ensure timely, accurate, and thorough creation and submission of commercial and technical proposals, meeting client and business requirements; and their effective communication to clients and internal engineering team

    Design competitive and viable technical approaches to resolve client issues

    Lead the team to write technical articles for publication and to deliver presentations at technical conferences and in meetings with clients that evince the Company's technical expertise, and effectively communicate the benefits of the Company's products and services to clients

    Assess the lifecycle value of the Company's motor and drive product and service offerings for key clients and applications

    Create tools and collateral on new products and applications for use by the sales team

    Plan, execute the launch, and manage the cross-functional implementation of new drive and motor offerings and releases

    Ensure that records of opportunities, proposals, projects and business activities are properly and effectively reported per approved business practices using CRM tools

    Identify new products and service feature opportunities through all available means, such as reporting by the sales team, directly soliciting feedback from clients, monitoring industry and emerging trends, and tracking the competitive environment, and make feasible recommendations to drive business growth

    Identify opportunities for enhancements and improvements to existing products and services through all available means, and make feasible recommendations to drive business growth

    Identify and report capital and human resource limitations that present a risk to Business Unit MRP commitments

    Develop a process to track and measure organizational operational quality and efficiency
    General Employee Accountabilities

    Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

    Give manager best advice

    Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

    Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

    • Exemplify Company Core Values:
    Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

    Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

    Recommend viable improvements proactively

    Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
    Manager Accountabilities

    Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

    Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

    Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

    Own the output of the team

    Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

    Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

    Two-way managerial team working

    Fair and just treatment of direct reports

    Context setting

    Planning

    Task assignment

    Ongoing performance management

    Coaching

    Selection and orientation

    De-selection and dismissal
    Minimum Qualifications

    Bachelor of science degree in a technical field or equivalent via education and/or work experience

    5 years' sales application engineering or technical sales in industrial automation systems

    Demonstrated presentation skills

    Demonstrated negotiation skills

    Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

    Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

    Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

    Proficiency in MS Office

    Available to travel, domestically and internationally, up to approximately 30% of the time, sometimes with limited notice
    Preferred Qualifications

    7 years' experience in the application of industrial automation systems

    Demonstrated application engineering experience in the metals, crane systems, and/or paper industries

    Demonstrated experience with client specifications review, proposal development, and contract development and negotiations

    Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams

    Demonstrated experience developing and writing specifications and proposals
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