Sales Engineer

at  Xylem

Join Xylem in the global mission to #LetsSolveWater! As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world’s most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.
The purpose of the position is to build strong, close and sincere relationships with existing our customer base and also to purpose, seek, cold call and find new business opportunities within South Africa or part thereof.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or equivalent Technical qualification in Engineering or similar.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant technical experience within the sales environment from the water metering industry.
• Experience in water metering technology and systems is a must-have.
• Sound knowledge of applications and working of various metering technologies.
• Experience in water loss reduction solutions would be an added advantage.
• Sound knowledge in fluid based technologies.
• SAP and Salesforce experience will be an added advantage.
• Valid driver’s licence.
• Own transport and ability to travel within South Africa extensively.

Key Competencies

• Self-driven and motivated with ability to prioritize and pay attention to detail.
• Sales and negotiation skills.
• Sound knowledge in metering-based technologies and applications.
• Strong customer relations orientated.
• Problem solving abilities.
• Able to work against tight deadlines to achieve results.
• Able to adapt to the demands of an ever changing internal and external environments.
• 100% commitment and focused on professional service delivery and customer satisfaction.

Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage, conservation, and re-use. Our products impact public utilities, industrial sectors, residential areas, and commercial buildings, with a commitment to providing smart metering, network technologies, and advanced analytics for water, electric, and gas utilities. Partner with us in creating a world where water challenges are met with ingenuity and dedication; where we recognize the power of diversity, equity and inclusion in driving innovation and allowing us to compete more effectively around the world

• Carries out sales and site visits to customers in accordance with the sales plan, and provides advice to customers on a range of solutions, attempting to match customer needs with engineered solutions.
• Applies an aggressive sales plan, formulated in conjunction with the Sales Manager, to achieve sales, profits and growth budgets.
• Analyses sources of tender information.
• Anticipates future projects and follows up on leads.
• Applies solution knowledge on in order to sell and incorporate these in complete systems or solutions.
• Conducting presentations to customers, distributors, engineers, contractors, consultants, project developers, property developers, facility managers and internal staff on product and application information.
• Provide accurate, relevant and up to date market and sales information.
• Update and manage CRM software (Salesforce).
• Submission of weekly reports.