Date Posted: May 29, 2011
Location: IIkoyi - Lagos, Nigeria
Job Number:1382946
Business:GE Energy
Business Segment:Energy - Energy Services
Career Level:Experienced
Function:Sales
Function Segment:Functional Management
Location:Nigeria
City:IIkoyi - Lagos
Relocation Assistance: No
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Sales Application Engineer 5 demonstrates leadership in communicating business goals, programs, and processes for an area or business segment. In this role you will solve problems, develop and execute objectives for self and others, and have the ability to effect short-term and some long-term business goals.
Essential Responsibilities
· Provide technical sales support to Region Managers, Sales Managers and team
· Responsible for the driving customer specification of products, services, upgrades and total system solutions
· Provide technical expertise to Sales and Commercial Operations in selecting, implementing, and developing competitive product applications and solutions
· Responsible to support the sales team to meet orders goals for the region and by market segment
· Provide training and technical support to the Region Managers and Sales Managers
· Coordinate with sales force to make customer calls and presentations and participate in bid meetings and walk-through meetings with the customer as necessary
· Estimate GE equipment and system performance, hardware, and price for budgetary estimates
· Assess competitive system performance and hardware evaluation throughout the entire bid process
· Perform cycle and equipment comparisons to establish economically optimum / GE preferred cycle and configuration with involvement of and communication to the commercial teams and application engineers
· Respond to various technical questions regarding products and systems solutions
· Lead the development and maintenance of documentation of processes and information used within the Evaluation, Analysis and Pricing group for the purposes of ensuring consistency, sharing of information among team members.
Qualifications/Requirements:
· Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college
· At least 5 additional years of experience working with sales, marketing, application engineering or field services
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
· Willingness and ability to travel
Desired Characteristics
· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is preferred
· Knowledge of Gas and Steam Turbines preferred
· Strong presentation skills
· Strong creative problem solving skills
· Strong oral and written communication skills
· Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
· Strong customer mindset
· Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
· Prior experience with customer specifications review, proposal development, and contract development and negotiations is preferred
· Prior experience in developing and writing specifications and proposals is preferred
· Ability to bring an innovative approach to complicated problem solving
· Ability to work in a team-oriented setting and develop complex solutions utilizing the entire GE portfolio
Job Segments:Application Engineering, Developer, Engineer, Engineering, Sales, Sales Engineer, Sales Support, Technical Support, Technology
Deadline:2 Weeks from post date.
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