Sales Engineers

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Business Development Engineer, Product Sales Engineer, Sales Engineer, Technical Marketing Engineer

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What they do:
Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.
On the job, you would:
  • Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products, and to provide sales support.
  • Create sales or service contracts for products or services.

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • sales and marketing

Engineering and Technology

  • product and service development
  • design

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
  • understanding people's reactions

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems

Math

  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Memory

  • remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Initiative

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

  • Oracle PeopleSoft Hot Technology
  • SAP software Hot Technology

Project management software

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  • Microsoft Teams Hot Technology

Data base user interface and query software

  • Amazon Web Services AWS software Hot Technology In Demand
  • IBM DB2 Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed

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