Job Description
Title: Sales Engineer
Location: Northbrook, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $90-100K + Bonus
Overview:
We are seeking a Sales Applications Engineer to drive new business development and support the sale of custom automation solutions within the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. This role combines technical sales, customer relationship management, and application engineering to identify opportunities, develop proposals, and support projects from concept through execution.
Job Duties:
- Develop new business opportunities and maintain relationships with existing customers
- Identify and qualify automation projects based on technical fit, scope, and budget
- Understand customer requirements and recommend appropriate automation solutions
- Prepare sales proposals, project budgets, and customer presentations
- Interpret User Requirement Specifications (URS) and develop sequences of operation
- Present technical solutions to customers and support the sales process
- Assist project teams after project award, including managing scope changes and customer communications
- Support financial discussions related to project changes and enhancements
Qualifications:
- Experience selling automation equipment, custom machinery, or engineered systems
- Pharmaceutical, medical device, or life sciences industry experience preferred
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and assembly automation processes
- Experience developing technical proposals, budgets, and presentations
- Ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Northbrook, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$100,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Automationunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Business Developmentunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
- Manufacturing Assemblyunmatched
- Manufacturing Automationunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Proposal Developmentunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Sales Presentationunmatched
- Sales Proposalsunmatched
- Sales Supportunmatched
- Sales/Support Engineering (SE)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Presentationunmatched
- Technical Salesunmatched
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