Account Manager/Sales Engineer

R.O. Whitesell is seeking an energetic and personable Account Manager/Sales Engineer to join their team. This role involves utilizing a technical background to solve problems and introduce solutions to customers, while also engaging in strategic sales and marketing planning.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize your technical background/education in a customer facing role
• Use your technical problem solving skills to introduce component and assembly hardware solutions to end customers across a wide range of markets
• Regularly travel within territory (State of Wisconsin) to interface with customer engineering, procurement and commodity management contacts
• Strategic sales and marketing planning for long term growth
• Collaborative planning with our manufacturers, customers, and channel supply partners
• Current customer support and new product development
• Development of new, strategic customers
• Support of new product introductions / designs
• Support of our manufacturers and our customer engineering, procurement, and quality in new product development
• CRM utilization

Requirements:

• The ideal associate will be highly motivated and can properly balance the work/life integration
• The ability to collaborate both internally and externally is essential to both our and our clients/customers success
• We offer personal development, under a mentor environment, to promote both individual and team success
• The ability to effectively communicate to facilitate business partnerships with a focus on engineering, procurement, and management
• Well organized with the ability to multi-task
• Travel domestically and internationally
• Utilize your technical background/education in a customer facing role
• Use your technical problem solving skills to introduce component and assembly hardware solutions to end customers across a wide range of markets
• Regularly travel within territory (State of Wisconsin) to interface with customer engineering, procurement and commodity management contacts
• Strategic sales and marketing planning for long term growth
• Collaborative planning with our manufacturers, customers, and channel supply partners
• Current customer support and new product development
• Development of new, strategic customers
• Support of new product introductions / designs
• Support of our manufacturers and our customer engineering, procurement, and quality in new product development
• CRM utilization
• BS Degree in engineering is preferred however candidates with a 4-year degree will be considered
• Bachelor's (Preferred)
• Sales: 3 years (Preferred)