Engineer, Sales, VC&A
Valmet Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Machinery Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The role involves implementing sales strategies and achieving sales budgets for the Flow business line within the South Region. You will build and maintain customer relationships, monitor competition, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure engineering and service requirements are met.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and possess 3-7 years of sales experience in the automation industry. Proficiency in selling industrial valves and instrumentation to sectors like Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals is mandatory.
Full description
Purpose of the position
To implement & achieve OR/NS sales budgets from allotted Industries in his territory from South Region . Products are from the Flow business line. Report to Regional Sales Manager
In this role, you will :
- Develop and implement actions as per strategic plans & sales objectives.
- Provide sales forecasting for assigned customer base and set performance goals accordingly.
- Build up customer base by expanding to new business area.
- Build up and maintain good customer relations for top customer satisfaction
- Market and sell products and services according to agreed plans in cooperation with Indian/Global management.
- Report business development and activities to Indian/Global management as instructed.
- Maintain close relationship with customers to determine their needs.
- Cooperation & development of sales channel partners.
- Monitors / Analyses competition activities and devises effective strategy to be ahead of them.
Internal network
- Sales team for setting objectives, guidelines and formulating strategy.
- Operation team, to ensure that engineering requirements are met.
- Finance team, to understand the financial impact of the business.
- Service team, to ensure proper support for post sales activities.
External network
- Allotted Existing and upcoming customers & Suppliers
- Channel Partners
- Relevant authorities
Basic requirements of the position
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical /control& instrumentation, preferred) and minimum 3 – 7 years sales experience of various equipments in Automation Industry.
- Must be experienced in selling Industrial Valves & Instrumentation products
- Market and Customer experience & exposure to Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Refining & Petrochemical and EPC contractors is a must.
- Proficient use of spreadsheets, PowerPoint, word processing and have a good understanding of the use of data bases.
- Should have handled business to big / corporate customers.
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or government regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
- Networking skills
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Good communicator
- Sales orientated
- Team player
When everything works together
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customer’s performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.
Join the team! www.valmet.com/careers
