Sales Specialist
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You will be working as Sales Specialist, reporting to Country Managing Director for Process Automation Business area, Energy Industries division based in Modderfontein, South Africa. You will be responsible for sales of products/systems/services within a designated market in accordance with strategy, building long term customer relationships and managing resolution to specific customer needs and issues.
Your responsibilities
Establishing and maintaining effective customer relationships to understand customer needs, promoting customer understanding of full product/systems/ services offering, and aligning to provide a solution
Creating added value for the customer and ABB and ensuring the successful outcome of transactions, contracts and proposals by using effective sales techniques
Ensuring efficient marketing activities and value proposition to customers
Identifying and driving the development of new market opportunities in the designated market and ensuring know-how sharing and cross-collaboration
Managing administrative procedures in sales processes, supporting collection, and project management activities when needed
Performing regular status reviews and proposing recovery plan(s) in cases of potential order shortfalls
Ensuring appropriate technical and financial aspects of offers, including prices and trading conditions
Your background
Bachelor’s degree or diploma in electrical engineering
Minimum 5–7 years of experience in a technical/sales position in global industries
Good knowledge of customer products, applications, processes, contract, and risk management
Excellent skills in customer relations by showing a mature selling behavior and actively driving discussions and negotiations to the benefit of the business with customers
Highly motivated team-player with a collaborative, learning & solutions-oriented approach, and strong communication skills
Benefits
Retirement plan
More about us
ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart, and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and water sectors. Driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize, and electrify industry we connect our people and technology to help our customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with our technologies designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, reduce energy consumption and waste We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning Work model: on site #LI-onsite