Senior Sales Engineer

Eaton’s ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Senior Sales Engineer. The primary function of the Senior Sales Engineer is to sell assigned product lines to targeted customers in the San Francisco Bay Area. A company car is provided.

What You’ll Do

This role will provide sales and technical assistance with distributors, contractors, end users, and Electrical Group personnel. It will provide timely and accurate information for order entry, elevate quality issues to management, and ensure accurate information flows to market intelligence data on competitive products, customer needs preference and buying habits. It will 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.

In This Function You Will

• Accurate and timely planning and specification interpretation, quotation, and technical support.
• Communicate with customers, warehouse, and plants to facilitate problem resolution.
• Collect, analyze, and utilize market intelligence regarding competitive products, customer needs, preferences, and buying habits.
• Review and interpret customer needs on plans and specifications.
• Provide facility timely solutions to customer issues by utilizing available resources or creating procedures for resolution.
• Be aware of and responsive to market conditions and competitive activities while communicating such information to product divisions.
• Plan promotional events and presentations with distributor personnel to promote Eaton’s position, while developing a proven record of achieving assigned sales goals.
• 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.
• Three (3)+ years’ experience within the electrical industry.
• One (1)+ year of electrical switchgear experience.
• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver’s license.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now and in the future.
• No relocation benefit is offered for this position. Only candidates residing within 50 miles of Pleasanton, CA (94588) will be considered for this position. Active‑Duty Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical limitation.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

Skills

• Knowledge of key customers within sales territories.
• Time management, presentation, and planning skills.
• Command 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 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.

Compensation

The compensation range for this full‑time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. The target total compensation range is $128,700 – $188,760.

Benefits

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. Benefit 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Eaton is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job‑related reasons regardless of an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Second Chance Employment

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws. You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After a conditional offer and background check, if Eaton is concerned about a conviction directly related to the job, you will be given a chance to explain the circumstances, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

Disability‑Related Reasonable Accommodation

To request a disability‑related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1‑800‑836‑6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted at this phone number.

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