Sales Specialist
Current- Development of a strong pipeline of new business opportunities through direct or indirect customer contact and prospecting. - Responsible for opportunity management, proposals, and sales of Electro-Mechanical and Automation retrofits for existing Blentech Equipment.- Schedule and attend regular site visits with domestic and international customers to nurture strategic customer relationships and close business on active opportunities.- Identify new opportunities with partners or potential customers. - Advance opportunities in the current Blentech pipeline at the direction of the International / National Sales Manager. - Intake leads to qualifying and generating new opportunities.- Timely record keeping in the Salesforce (CRM) database on prospects, leads, and opportunities.- International and Domestic industry trade show attendance to Prospect for new business opportunities.- Salesforce data management to tactically identify customer visits.- Onsite support for trials at the customer site with rental Blentech Equipment.- Onsite customer visits both domestically and internationally to facilitate customer startups, service calls/sales and site audits.- Provide onsite Startup and Commissioning support for new Blentech Equipment: (1) Piping and Instrumentation Diagram validation.(2) Ensure that all utility connections to the machine are set up. (3) I/O, Calibration, and Functionality Checkout.(4) Remote connection testing.(5) AutoChef 2.0 Batch Control System & ARTIS Platform Onsite Trainings.(6) Water and Product Testing.(7) Instrumentation calibration.(8) Preventive maintenance training.