Sales Application Engineer

Location

Chennai | India

Job description

As a Creaform SAE, you will interface with engineers and technicians who use Creaform products in many different applications and industries. You will gain exposure to customers through a variety of interactions such as conducting sales demonstrations in collaboration with our sales team, providing customer training, technical support and realizing service mandates. You will also be deeply involved into the sales process with the local account manager by supporting the technical qualification of business opportunities, analyzing and testing customers application to build and present a technical proposal to customers .

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Provide applicative training on Creaform and partner technologies to our customer base;
• Perform service projects at customers site or in Creaforms facilities;
• Act as the usage and knowledge reference of the Creaform product lines and support internal customers (marketing, R&D, Creaform Campus) in their operations.
• Provide technical support to local customers over Creaform hardware, software, and applicative question.
• Provide feedback on market, new potential applications, Creaform products and competitive landscape to sales managers, product managers and technical experts so improvements on our products reflect our clients needs.
• Contribute to the technical knowledge development of the sales channel (ISS, AM, RM and distributors)
• In collaboration with the local Sales team:
  • Elaborate the local business development strategy;
  • Ensure deployment of Creaform solutions through technical, commercial and marketing actions (demos, benchmarks, exhibitions, etc.);
  • Contribute at your level to new sales leads and business opportunities generation;
  • When needed, take the technical leadership on business opportunities from the pre to post sales process;
  • Actively contribute to the evaluation of customer requirements; from the technical qualification of the project and initial tests to the technical proposal submission;
  • Prepare and perform demonstration and technical benchmarks. For advanced application as such gage R&R, high accuracy application or AQC project, work closely with technical managers and experts to validate technical proposal;
  • In coordination with the sales team, present the final technical proposal to customers and contribute to the closing;

Requirements:

• Engineering degree (technical or bachelor) or relevant experience;
• Available to travel nationally and internationally on a regular basis (50%);
• Is fluent in English;
• Experience in metrology and portable CMM is a major asset

Required profile:

• Interest in sales and customer service;
• Fast and efficient learner;
• Flexible and fast to adapt;
• Well organized;
• Demonstrates autonomy and initiative;
• Is computer proficient.
• Demonstrate basic sales skills
• Comfortable to perform presentations in front of people

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