Semrock is hiring a Sales Engineer

[Prabhat, Prashant]

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Sales Engineer, Semrock, Inc.<http://www.linkedin.com/company/semrock-inc.> - Rochester, New York Area

Job description
Semrock is looking for an ambitious field sales person to join our Catalog Business, supporting entire North America. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a technical background who prefers to work closely with customers to understand their needs and grow business.
This person should be passionate about supporting our customers and proactively identify and nurture repeat order opportunities from existing and new OEM accounts. This person must be both resourceful and a team player, and is expected to develop into a key sales leader in an on-going aggressive corporate growth trajectory.
Key Traits: Structured, organized and highly methodical - more process driven; provides (strategic) leadership to steer the ship; focused on value selling to win profitable business; will ensure goals remains on track.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  *   This person will lead sales efforts by broadening Semrock's business reach with new and existing OEM customers in North America.
  *   The right person will learn how to properly qualify and prioritize new opportunities.
  *   This person will have the experience to sell at all levels within an account and will effectively broaden Semrock's business with key OEM customers.
  *   A proven track record of selling optical components, and/or experience selling into the biotech OEM markets, is essential.
  *   Excellent project management as well as customer relationships management is essential for the success in this role.
  *   The successful candidate will quickly become comfortable with our highly technical products, as well as learn the use of traditional selling techniques.
  *   This person will be trained on Semrock product lines, technology and applications, in order to both qualify opportunities, as well as to support assigned OEM accounts.
  *   This person is expected to have sales experience on how to sell at all levels of an account.
  *   The territory is the entire North America. This person should be located near a major airport, and be happy to travel up to 60% of the time.

Desired Skills and Experience

  *   This person needs to be effective while working in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company environment. A strong customer orientation is essential. The right candidate will have a proven ability to quickly grasp new technical concepts. On a personal level, the candidate will exhibit the highest standards of integrity, and will be a team player.
  *   Semrock prides itself on its quality products and is looking for someone who will work hard to ensure full customer satisfaction.

Education / Experience:

  *   Bachelor's degree in a technical or scientific field
  *   1-3 years of experience in Field Sales, Applications Engineering and/or Inside Sales
  *   Optical component or imaging instrumentation industry experience highly desired
Website: http://www.semrock.com/careers.aspx



Prashant Prabhat, Ph.D.

Semrock, Inc., A Unit of IDEX Corporation
3625 Buffalo Road, Suite 6
Rochester, NY 14624
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