Sales Engineer

Job description

Department:

Sales / Business Development

The objective of the Sales Engineer role is to support the

Your Responsibilities:
·  Develop relationships within existing customer base as well as establishing relationships with new customers
·  Supporting Key Account Managers with execution of strategic development plans in a pro-active manner
·  Liaising with other AVL affiliates and clients
·  Quotation development
·  Identify new business opportunities for AVL

Desired profile

Your Profile:
·  Essential:
·  Technical education (degree level or above)
·  Ability to prepare project proposals, present to customer and conduct follow up negotiation
·  A proactive approach with the ability to pay attention to detail and meet deadlines
·  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build good relationships with colleagues from all cultures
·  Highly customer focused and able to solve customer related issues to mutual satisfaction
·  Excellent knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office
·  Planning, prioritising and coordinating workload independently with minimal guidance
·  Appreciation of future challenges faced by customers and ability to identify how AVL can support customers to solve them
·  Willingness to travel
·  Preferable:
·  Previous experience of engineering projects in the automotive industry
·  Sales experience (either studies or professional)
·  German language skills would be beneficial
·  Knowledge of AVL's product and service offerings and the types of projects undertaken by AVL Powertrain Engineering
·  Experience with sales tools and software, for example Salesforce.com, SharePoint etc.

A unique opportunity to join our growing, high-tech, international team. We look forward to receiving your details; please send them using our online application form.
AVL United Kingdom Ltd.