Location
Wadsworth, OH | United States
Job description
About Fives Group
Fives Group, headquartered in Paris, France, is an industrial engineering group founded in 1812 that designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial groups including the aluminum, steel, tube and pipe, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, cement and energy sectors. In 2018, Fives achieved sales of $2 billion with a team of close to 8,500 employees and a network of over 100 operational units in over 25 countries.
Summary: Fives Group has an immediate opening for a Technical Salesperson to be responsible for the order processing for spare parts at our offices in Wadsworth, Ohio.
The Technical Salesperson will collect, consolidate and organize spare parts lists for various projects, prepare the offer to the end user, complete the sale, oversee and process the order internally and initiate invoicing for the delivered parts. This person will be reporting to the Fives Service Manager. This role will involve daily interface with Fives' personnel both within the Fives office, spare parts counterparts at the appropriate Fives entity within the Fives Steel Group, purchasing, logistics, sales teams and project management.
Primary objective is to be the contact within Fives for all things related to spare parts.
Job Responsibilities: Requires a motivated, efficient and rigorous individual with the ability to work within the constraints of scope, time and cost. The ideal candidate can work well in a project team and can communicate with other team members. In addition, the following abilities are desired:
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules and deadlines.
- Ability to take "ownership" of assignments.
- Able to work collaboratively with employees of all levels within the organization.
- The ability to work effectively in a team-based environment is a necessity.
- Professional interpersonal skills (oral & written communication and persuasion skills) to build internal and external relationships. Actively listens, probes and identifies concerns. Develops credibility, loyalty, trust and commitment.
Specific Responsibilities Include: - Work with Project Managers to collect spare parts information pertinent to the specific project.
- Collect and combine spare parts lists from the pertinent Fives entities.
- Work with customer's maintenance/purchasing departments to define their needs.
- Prepare the commercial offer for spare parts.
- Work with the customer to refine the offer and make the sale.
- Track the progress of the spare parts in process.
- Work with Fives Logistics to specify shipping instructions.
- Initiate the invoicing for spare part deliveries.
- Regularly contact our customers to determine and address their spare parts needs.
- Report spare parts activities to the Service Manager.
Assets for the Position: For a candidate to be effective and successful in this position, they should be able to demonstrate virtues and characteristics such as the following:
- Organizational and communication skills in close relationships with the Fives team
- Skills: Keen listening, open-mindedness, and strong interpersonal skills so that necessary alliances with internal & external groups can be forged and developed quickly. Comfortable communicating openly and equitably with peers & subordinates throughout FIVES & customer organizations.
- Organized, well structured, rigorous, autonomous
- Extensive experience in PC skills utilizing Microsoft Office. Proficiency in MS Excel is a must.
Education/Experience: - 2+ years of similar experience in technical sales
- Technical degree or equivalent experience would be a plus but not required
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP
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Benefits: Hired employees will receive great benefits along with an extremely competitive compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Holidays, Personal Time Off and 401K with company match and more.
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