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Selecting the Right Sales Engineers
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Sales Engineer, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Sales Engineer.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Sales Engineer or a team of Sales Engineers. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Sales Engineer Job Description Template
Sales Engineer
The Sales Engineer typically does the following: Prepares and delivers technical presentations explaining products or services to clients and prospective clients. Confers with clients and engineers to assess the product or services needs and determines system requirements. Helps clients solve problems with installed products or services.
- The Sales Engineer promotes and sells the products to clients in the assigned area.
- The Sales Engineer prepares and submits monthly sales and collection forecasts.
- The Sales Engineer reaches out to concerned clients on a regular basis to follow-up their on-going requirements or take their orders.
- Meets his/her target sales goals within the prescribed marginal profits.
- Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule.
- The Sales Engineer focuses sales efforts by studying existing and future potential client adjusts content of sales presentations by studying the need of a specific buying influence.
- Resolves client concerns and complaints by properly coordinating with support groups but not limited to developing solutions
- Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily activities, weekly itinerary, and other sales activities.
- Excellent Polite and persuasive communications skills.
- Passionate, hard worker and well organized professional with power to prioritize and multitask.
- Should exert sound judgement, discretion and preserve confidentiality.
- Ability to meet deadlines, Attention to details.
- Able to operate in different work conditions such as on site and off site.
- Organizational skills required for carrying out his/her daily duties particularly in terms of time and priorities.
- Related experience in a client service environment, Order Management/Order Entry.
- With excellent communication skills both verbal and written, Experience in sales is an advantage. .
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Sales Engineer before making sure that the candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Sales Engineer, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Sales Engineer you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Sales Engineer with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Sales Engineer can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Sales Engineer is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Sales Engineer needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Sales Engineer to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
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