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Job Title: Sales Engineer (Field-based, Power Industry)

Location: Southern India

Workplace Type: Field-based

Experience: 1 - 4 Years

Qualification: B.E. / Diploma (Mechanical)

Work Mode: 6 Days Working (may require travel and flexibility for client visits)

About the Role

We are looking for a Sales Engineer to drive business growth, build strong client relationships, and provide technical-commercial solutions to leading companies in the Power industry. This role is ideal for candidates passionate about industrial sales and customer success.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve assigned sales targets within the Power sector.
• Interact with corporate clients for business development & client servicing.
• Conduct presentations and demonstrations at client sites for product promotion.
• Handle and resolve technical and commercial queries from clients.
• Ensure timely settlement of customer complaints & quality issues.
• Formulate and execute short-term and long-term marketing goals.
• Provide timely reporting of sales & marketing activities with regular updates.
• Be willing to travel/relocate anywhere in India as per business requirements.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 1 - 4 years of experience in selling equipment/machinery in the Power sector.
• Strong knowledge of power industry operations and client requirements.
• Excellent communication skills in English & Hindi (knowledge of Tamil/Telugu is an added advantage).
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation & client-handling skills.
• Proven track record of achieving sales targets in the Power domain.
• Highly motivated, adaptable, and able to work in a 6-day working environment.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the chance to work with leading clients in the Power sector, contribute to innovative industrial solutions, and grow your career in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Job Summary:

The Head of Strategy and Pre-sales will lead the strategic growth initiatives and pre-sales activities of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Business Unit. This leadership role is responsible for translating the company’s overarching goals into actionable strategies, managing a team of pre-sales professionals, research engineers, and strategists. You will ensure seamless alignment between business development, product innovation, and client engagement to drive revenue and customer success.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy Development & Implementation:

Translate organizational imperatives into actionable BU-level strategies and execution plans.

Develop and implement a scalable pre-sales framework aligned with business objectives.

Be the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for proactive proposals, RFPs, and RFIs.

Collaborate with sales, product, and practice teams for unified client engagement.

Craft compelling pitches and value propositions for target accounts.

Work across Business Units to deliver comprehensive solutions.

Partner with marketing on campaign strategy and content development.

Ensure alignment with organizational policies and compliance requirements.

Maintain strong product and market knowledge to position solutions effectively.

Continuously optimize pre-sales processes and tools.

Go-to-Market Execution:

Drive strategic deal shaping, win strategies, pricing, and differentiation.

Build detailed account plans aligned with client strategic initiatives.

Provide support materials such as case studies and capability documents.

Enable internal teams on new offerings in emerging tech areas.

Lead & Demand Generation:

Generate leads via direct outreach, marketing campaigns, and partnerships.

Set up and qualify meetings with potential clients.

Support business growth through targeted messaging and proactive engagement.

Reporting & Analytics:

Monitor strategy implementation and BU performance.

Track KPIs including win rates, deal velocity, and client engagement.

Provide regular strategic and operational reports to senior leadership.

Knowledge Management:

Relay prospect feedback to inform product roadmaps.

Stay ahead of market and industry trends.

Oversee creation of whitepapers and thought leadership materials.

Ensure documentation standards for solutions, brochures, and catalogues.

Drive knowledge sharing, training, and certifications across teams.

Team Leadership & Development:

Align team deployment with skillsets and project requirements.

Uphold process discipline and performance standards.

Foster capability development and mentor team members.

Drive performance management, goal setting, and continuous coaching.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; MBA preferred.

15+ years in pre-sales, technical consulting, or sales engineering, preferably in engineering services.

Proven success in strategy implementation and performance tracking.

Strong leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Deep understanding of the Healthcare & Life Sciences domain.

Excellent communication, problem-solving, and consultative selling abilities.

Who you are:

We are looking for experienced / energetic Demo Jockey (s) who can represent the 500apps brand well and engage our prospective customers in partnership with the sales team in meaningful ways for customers as well as 500apps.. Ideal candidates will share our passion to learn and master the apps to make customers appreciate 500apps in their situation / context. The successful candidate will be business savvy, detail oriented and be able to build effective demo’s to suit a prospective customer's use case. She / he would have had relevant experience in a SaaS / Product based company.

What you will be doing (responsibilities):

1. Work as part of the Sales POD in a matrixed environment to close deals.

2. Pull together effective demo’s using necessary apps for desired outcomes.

3. Keep an eye on the Sales pipeline and build / customize demo’s as needed prior to client meetings in partnership with the sales team.

4. Gather feedback from Customers post demonstration and provide the same to the Product team for potential enhancements / tweaks to fit into the customer's environment.

5. Be available / flex for demo’s as per shift / region assigned.

6. Build and maintain a repository of ready to use Demo’s for most frequent use cases.

7. Create and submit necessary reports.

8. Be the product champion / evangelist for 500apps.com

9. Stay on top of updates in current apps and new apps being launched - explore new app combinations for enhanced results.

Skills, Qualifications, Requirements:

• Clear and articulate communicator in English language to be able to effectively engage International customers.
• Ability to learn and apply apps in a stand alone fashion as well as in combination with other apps to deliver enhanced results for Customer use cases.
• Ideal candidate has a broad understanding of industries, domains, functions and disciplines to be able to effectively and quickly apply the apps in appropriate scenarios.
• You will ideally have a combination of both Product (Computer Sciences) and Business education and experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience as Demo Specialist or Onboarding Specialist in a B2B setting.
• Should be able to work effectively in a Matrixed environment - working closely with Sales and Customer Success Teams.

• Ability to learn and adapt fast.

Roles & responsibilities

• Learn & understand our products/services, and our current/ prospective clients well.
• Understand client pain points, requirements and correlate our solutions and client requirements.
• Source new sales opportunities through outbound reach, cold emails, chats or phone calls, or anything to reach out to prospective customers.
• Respond, engage and qualify inbound leads and inquiries.
• Engage current users to expand awareness, educate, ask for referrals, identify new opportunities.
• Execute planned sales activities and develop a target list of high potential new customers.
• Resolve client complaints regarding sales and services.
• Achieve monthly & quarterly targets.
• Perform effective online demos to prospects.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with the internal engineering team to provide the best product/ solution to the client.

Desired Candidate Profile: -

• Candidates should have 0- 2 years of sales experience, (solution sales approach) preferably in a high-tech environment and/ or Internet technology environment.
• Consistent track record of success in closing business, and creating and managing a pipeline of opportunities.
• Highly motivated and professional with excellent communication skills.
• Highly confident and goal-oriented.
• Ability to communicate with senior-level management
• Good leadership and team working skills.
• Must possess the highest level of ethics and integrity.