Technical Sales Specialist

Job Title: Technical Sales Specialist

Job Description

As a member of the Growth Sales Team, the Technical Sales Specialist identifies opportunities at both new and existing customers. You will effectively and convincingly present the value proposition and product offering to management, purchasing, and engineering personnel. You will develop a customer strategy, aggressively implement the strategy, and ultimately turn customer visits into sales opportunities. Additionally, you will extract Voice of Customer feedback and share these inputs internally. This role is ideal for a self-motivated, enthusiastic, outgoing, collaborative, and technically competent individual.

Hard Skills

Develop and execute quarterly visit plans

Produce strategic plans for target customers

Develop and grow relationships at target customers

Create Pre- and Post-Sales visit reports

Pro-actively work with the internal execution team

Acquire and analyze Voice of Customer information

Identify at-risk customers and execute retention plans

Acquire competitive intelligence through sales calls

Soft Skills

Self-motivated

Enthusiastic

Outgoing

Collaborative

Technically competent

Job Type

This is a Contract-to-Hire position with a duration of 9 Month(s).

Work Site

This is a fully remote position.

Work Environment

There will be 70% travel with this role, mostly flying rather than driving. You will receive a list of current, former, and target companies. The sales team consists of five members, which will grow to six once this position is filled.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

Hiring diverse talent

Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com (%20actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com) for other accommodation options.