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Sales Application Engineer Remote-East US (all genders)

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on increasing sales by developing new business and managing key accounts within the sensor industry. You will work closely with customers to provide technical support and launch new products, contributing to the growth of Angst+Pfister's US entity.

Qualifications

  • Degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or physics.
  • At least 3 years of relevant experience in the sensor industry.
  • Expertise selling pressure or flow sensors (or sensor components).
  • Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills.
  • Preferred: Experience with sales tracking software.

Responsibilities

  • Generate and develop new business with new customers in your designated territory.
  • Be responsible for the key account management of large existing customers.
  • Win new customers for the sensor product portfolio in industrial, medical, and transportation markets.
  • Provide technical support to customers and understand the applications and requirements of sensors.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Problem Solving
  • Negotiation
  • Communication

About the company

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Angst+Pfister

As a leading supplier of technical components and comprehensive solution provider for a wide range of industries, Angst+Pfister has been ensuring business continuity and serving the world’s leading manufacturers for over 100 years. Our professional capabilities center on: • being an engineering-led solution provider with in-depth customer application knowledge across a broad range of industries • globally sourcing a wide range of high-quality standard and customized industrial components and delivering them in ways that enhance our customers’ supply chain performance • proactively serving European and Asian original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe through multiple sales channels • sharing our expertise by publishing comprehensive catalogs and detailed technical specifications, and by hosting tailor-made seminars/events • fostering a professional environment that encourages entrepreneurial thinking, pragmatic decision-making and teamwork at the highest level

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Job description

We are where people are, and we have certainly met before - perhaps on the way to work, when you boarded the train that takes you safely to your destination every day; maybe when you enjoyed a cup of perfectly brewed coffee; maybe when you turned on the tap to fill a glass of refreshing water.

The Angst+Pfister Group is a leading global and innovative developer and manufacturer of sealing, vibration control, and sensing technology with over 2,000 employees in 24 countries on 3 continents.

Angst-Pfister is rapidly expanding its new US entity and is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Sales Application Engineer (SAE) to join our dynamic Sales Team. The SAE must increase sales through growing existing customer accounts along with a large focus on increasing our current business partnerships as well as creating new business relationships at accounts.  We want you to become a Trusted Advisor to your key customers.

This is a remote position based in the United States. Candidates must be able to work hours aligned with the Eastern Time Zone.

YOUR MISSION

You will…

  • Generate and develop new business with new customers in your designated territory.
  • Be responsible for the key account management of our large existing customers.
  • Win new customers for our sensor product portfolio in industrial, medical, and transportation markets.
  • Launch new products in close coordination with our product management and product development teams.
  • Maintain direct customer contact and relationship management.
  • Provide technical support to our customers and understand the applications and requirements of sensors.

YOUR PROFILE

  • You have a degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or physics. Alternatively, you have years of successful experience as a developer, product manager, applications engineer, or technical sales representative in the sensor industry.
  • You have at least 3 years of relevant experience in the sensor industry.
  • You have expertise selling pressure or flow sensors (or sensor components).
  • You are enthusiastic about independent, technical, and success-oriented work in harmony with our corporate culture.
  • Experience with sales tracking software.
  • Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Ability to overcome commercial and technical objections from potential clients/customers.
  • Ability to solve problems and to deal with a variety of variables.

ANGST+PFISTER SENSORS AND POWER DNA 

Angst+Pfister Sensors and Power AG is part of the Angst+Pfister Group, headquartered in Zurich. We develop and distribute high-quality sensor and power solutions based on qualified, in-depth technical consulting and supply OEM customers in demanding industries (medical, sensory, automotive, automation, etc.) with sensors for physical and geometric quantities (pressure, gas, flow, acceleration, displacement, angle, inclination), power supplies, and drive solutions.

YOUR BENEFITS

  • You are part of a company that promotes trust and relies on your ability to self-manage and take responsibility.
  • You can work from home in the Eastern Time Zone or in our office outside of Cleveland, OH.
  • You will work in a well-established company that serves customers broadly across various industries.
  • You will be carefully introduced and have individual career opportunities.
  • You will work in a young, dynamic team in an international environment.

For more information on the benefits, visit our People & Career page here: People & Career | Angst+Pfister

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