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Sales Specialist

ABB

ABB

Sales & Business Development
Fairfax, VA, USA
Posted on Jul 5, 2024

Sales Specialist

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.


This position reports to

Sales Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be responsible for the sales of products/systems/services within a designated market/division, in line with the division strategy. Each day, you will achieve both qualitative and quantitative sales targets to ensure sustainable order growth, revenues, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. You will also showcase your expertise by identifying and developing new sales opportunities. The work model for the role is: #LI - onsite This role is contributing to the Process Automation – Energy division in India. You will be mainly accountable for: • Sells products/systems/services to customers, focusing on volume, mix, and profitability targets for the assigned divisions. Establishes and maintains effective customer relationships to understand their needs, promotes their understanding of ABB’s complete product/systems/ services offering, and aligns with them to provide a solution. • Ensures a positive customer experience throughout the sales process. Prepares sales plans using ABB authorized tools. • Performs regular status reviews and proposes recovery plan(s), in case of any potential order shortfalls. Creates added value for the customer and ABB and ensures the successful outcome of transactions, contracts, and proposals, by using effective sales techniques. • Communicating to the customers about details related to delivery time, payments, and general terms and conditions, in line with ABB’s offering and strategy. • Ensuring efficient marketing activities and communicates value proposition to customers. • Identifying and driving the development of new market opportunities in the designated market. • Managing administrative procedures in sales processes and supports cash collection and project management activities, when needed. • Prepares/Supports offers in coordination with the bid and proposal department and/or the Marketing Manager. Ensures appropriate technical and financial aspects of offers are in place, including prices and trading conditions.

Qualifications for the role

  • Highly skilled in excitation systems, generator control and protection panels, and synchronization panels.
  • You need to have 5 to 12 years of experience in excitation systems, generator control and protection panels, and synchronization panels.
  • Possesses enhanced knowledge of portfolio management, market intelligence, go-to-market strategy, general sales practices, solution/application sales engineering, channel sales, and contract & risk management.
  • Passionate about customer-centric approaches, conflict resolution, decision-making, and analytical thinking.
  • Holds an engineering degree or diploma in Electrical Electronics or Electronics and Communication.
  • Comfortable communicating in English, both verbally and in writing.

More about us

"The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle." We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory "It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning"

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