Sales Application Engineering Manager (EM26094)

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

· 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