Technical Sales Representative - Houston (Shipping Channel)

VEGA Americas•Houston, TX

About The Position

VEGA Americas, Inc. is hiring a Technical Sales Representative to build and maintain customer relationships in the Southeast Houston market around the Shipping Channel. The representative will serve as a trusted advisor and provide customers with VEGA products and solutions. The role focuses on growing market share in an assigned territory and meeting customers’ on-time delivery expectations for sales orders originating from VEGA’s manufacturing facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. VEGA Americas manufactures, distributes, and services process instrumentation used to measure level, density, weight, and pressure. Its measurement technology supports safer and more efficient industrial processes and the trend toward intelligent factories. The company describes its culture as grounded in quality and respect for employees, customers, vendors, and shareholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field, plus at least one year of experience in industrial automation or instrumentation; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Prospect for new business in the defined territory through networking, scheduling appointments, conducting lunch-and-learns, and other sales-generating activities.
Develop an annual forecast for the assigned territory and execute a sales plan to meet or exceed market-share growth, topline revenue, and new-customer goals.
Serve as a trusted advisor to new and existing VEGA clients and ensure they receive platinum service.
Build close working relationships with key customer personnel and VEGA sales and technical personnel to support a team-selling approach and strengthen VEGA’s sales position.