Electric Automation Business Development Specialist (PHX)

Festo SE & Co. KG • Home Office, UT

7d • $115,000 - $135,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Drive the development of electronic product sales in a defined geography. Provide pre-sales product and Application support. Provide basic “feature benefit” and application sales training to sales engineers and selected customers for electronic products. Electronic Products defined as: Servo and stepping motor drives and controls, mechanical ball screw and belt drive actuators, PLC’s HMI’s, CPX valve manifolds.

Requirements

• BS-EE or equivalent
• 3-5 years of field experience sizing/selecting and commissioning servo and stepper systems in an industrial environment.
• Computer literate
• English Language
• Technical knowledge
• Knowledge of products
• Knowledge of customers
• Knowledge of market/industry segments
• Knowledge of Festo as a company
• Business knowledge
• Performance orientation
• Problem solving
• Personal planning and Organisation
• Communication
• Team working

Nice To Haves

• Special experience in a particular industry segment: automotive, semiconductor, photovoltaic, food and beverage and end-line packaging
• Openness and Flexibility
• Toughness
• Tolerance

Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for pre-sales support of all motion controllers, electric drives products (servo & stepper drives, actuators, and PLC‘s Knowledge of typical applications is required
• Drive the sales of electronic products through Festo Sales Engineers, Industry Segment Managers and selected distribution. These will be considered your “internal customers“
• Maintain good working knowledge of new products and their applications.
• Works closely with US Product Management, Industry Segment Managers, District Sales Managers and the E- Drives application engineers
• Additional work hours in excess of normal business hours may be necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.
• Travel may be required via any means of transportation determined by Company for business reasons such as, training, customer sites/visits or a company business event.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level