Maintain urgency and ownership throughout the sales cycle by coordinating follow-up actions, clarifications, samples, prototypes, technical reviews, and internal commitments.
Collaborate with engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and contracts to create solutions that are technically sound, manufacturable, competitively priced, and commercially viable.
Assess competitive alternatives, target pricing, cost drivers, margin expectations, and market conditions to help shape deal strategy and pricing recommendations.
Ensure sales teams and customers have current product configurations, drawings, specifications, quotation assumptions, and pricing information.
Support customer visits, trade shows, sales training, product demonstrations, and account-development activities as the technical voice of the commercial team.
Provide post-sale application support when needed to resolve installation, trial-operation, manufacturing, or field issues while protecting the customer relationship.
Support opportunities in regulated and contract-driven markets, including aerospace, medical device, DoD, ITAR-controlled, and government-contract environments
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline. Equivalent relevant experience in applications engineering or technical sales may be considered.
3+ years of experience in applications engineering, sales engineering, technical sales, or another customer-facing technical-commercial role supporting manufactured products or systems.
Demonstrated experience engaging customers, defining applications, recommending solutions, preparing quotations or proposals, and supporting opportunities through the sales cycle.
Working knowledge of electromechanical products or systems. Experience with electric motors, drives, gearboxes, motion control, automation, or precision components is strongly preferred.
Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, statements of work, bills of material, technical procedures, and customer requirements
Strong presentation, written communication, relationship-building, and cross-functional leadership skills
Commercial judgment with the ability to balance customer value, technical risk, cost, price, margin, schedule, and manufacturability
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience using CRM, ERP/MRP, quoting, estimating, or engineering-documentation systems.
Ability to travel periodically for customer meetings, site visits, trade shows, and sales activities.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting OEM customers in aerospace and defense, medical technology, industrial automation, robotics, semiconductor equipment, or other advanced-technology markets.
Experience with opportunity qualification, account planning, pipeline reviews, proposal strategy, competitive positioning, or value-based selling.
Familiarity with regulated requirements such as first article inspection, material traceability, customer-specific documentation, qualification testing, validation, export controls, or ITAR
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