Sales Specialist - Lead Sales Development

Baker Hughes•Houston, TX

About The Position

Driving Growth Through Customer‑Focused Sales Excellence and Digital Industrial Solutions Do you enjoy building customer relationships and supporting technical sales? Would you like to help customers adopt world‑class condition monitoring and digital transformation solutions? Partner with the Best Baker Hughes is a global leader in energy technology, delivering innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient across the entire value chain. Operating in more than 120 countries, we combine deep industrial expertise with advanced engineering and digital technologies to support energy production, transformation, and decarbonization. Our Bently Nevada and Cordant Solutions teams play a critical role in this mission. We provide industry‑leading hardware, sensors, protection systems, and enterprise‑level digital solutions that help customers monitor, diagnose, and optimize the health of their rotating and critical machinery assets. Fuel Your Passion The Sales Specialist – Bently Nevada & Cordant Solutions supports the successful execution of sales activities by assisting senior sales leaders, engaging with customers, and helping drive opportunities from qualification to closure. This role builds foundational sales capabilities while developing strong technical understanding of condition monitoring systems and digital industrial software. As a Sales Specialist, You Will Be Responsible For: Supporting the sale of Bently Nevada hardware, sensors, protection systems, and Cordant digital solutions. Building and maintaining relationships with end users, EPCs, system integrators, OEMs, and channel partners. Responding to customer inquiries and coordinating technical support with the technical account management team. Regional & Global Project Support: Supporting regional and global project pursuits, including opportunity tracking, forecasting, and documentation. Assisting with project coordination across sales, engineering, supply chain, and services teams. Helping ensure accurate scope definition and smooth handover from sales to project execution teams. Opportunity & Pipeline Management: Maintaining accurate opportunity data in CRM tools. Supporting lead qualification, follow‑ups, and sales funnel reporting. Assisting with preparing customer proposals, quotations, and contractual documentation. Product & Market Development: Developing a strong understanding of Bently Nevada and Cordant solutions, value propositions, and target industries. Staying informed on customer applications, industry trends, and competitive offers. Participating in product training, customer demos, and internal sales development programs. At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we are developing and deploying industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward. For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we are bringing our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient. Our people are the trusted experts, relied on to solve customer challenges big and small. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other. We believe in creating an environment of diversity and inclusion, without bias. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged, and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We're makers, inventors, and leaders who aren't afraid of the tough challenges. We believe pushing boundaries will help to lead the way for a new energy future.

Requirements

Have a bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Have experience in technical or industrial sales.
Have excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Have strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
Have the ability to work effectively in a team‑based, matrix organization.
Have proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Nice To Haves

Have internship or co‑op experience in sales, engineering, project management, or industrial environments.
Have familiarity with industrial markets such as energy, oil & gas, power generation, mining, or manufacturing.
Have experience with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce).
Have basic understanding of sensors, vibration monitoring, or industrial software.

Responsibilities

Supporting the sale of Bently Nevada hardware, sensors, protection systems, and Cordant digital solutions.
Building and maintaining relationships with end users, EPCs, system integrators, OEMs, and channel partners.
Responding to customer inquiries and coordinating technical support with the technical account management team.
Supporting regional and global project pursuits, including opportunity tracking, forecasting, and documentation.
Assisting with project coordination across sales, engineering, supply chain, and services teams.
Helping ensure accurate scope definition and smooth handover from sales to project execution teams.
Maintaining accurate opportunity data in CRM tools.
Supporting lead qualification, follow‑ups, and sales funnel reporting.
Assisting with preparing customer proposals, quotations, and contractual documentation.
Developing a strong understanding of Bently Nevada and Cordant solutions, value propositions, and target industries.
Staying informed on customer applications, industry trends, and competitive offers.
Participating in product training, customer demos, and internal sales development programs.

Benefits

Contemporary work‑life balanced policies and well‑being programs
Comprehensive private medical care options
Life insurance and disability coverage
Tailored financial programs
Education assistance
Generous parental leave
Mental health resources
Dependent care support
Additional elective or voluntary benefits
You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k).
You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs.
Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.
This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.