Technical Sales Representative, Oil & Gas
About this position
Responsibilities
• Ownership of the Field Sales life cycle process, start to finish, stepping up to deliver on your responsibilities, is ultimately your accountability.
• Understands customer’s needs and ensures products and services are positioned and understood by key decision makers in customer organizations.
• Responsible for responding to the Client Engagement Plan to enhance the profitability of the company through Weatherford provision of products and services to new & existing customers.
• Proposes solutions to customers formally (through pitches, presentations, bids & tender submissions) and informally through networks, relationships, discussions.
• Responsible for relaying competitive information back to the appropriate PL stakeholders, inc: pricing, product performance, marketing material, activities, new products/technology etc.
• Responsible for developing specific client application value propositions.
• Identifies opportunities for new products and services for customers and liaises with Weatherford internal resources accordingly.
• Visits customer worksites; Offices, Rig Sites, Warehouses/Workshops to make certain products and services meet customers expectations and to enhance Weatherford customer relationship.
• Responsible for the generation of annual revenue targets through the creation and conversion of sales plans including growth strategies.
• Take relevant actions to identify and address revenue ‘gaps’ for the year to ensure target achievement.
• Assists Technical Sales Manager with formulation of sales strategies and annual budget and as a minimum undertakes quarterly reviews of their account plans with the Technical Sales Manager (TSM).
• Accountable for delivering positive commercial results through strong negotiating skills which result in significant continuous improvements in margin performance.
• Evaluates sales via the Technical Sales Manager and identifies ‘pull-through’ opportunities whenever possible.
• Responsible for finalizing the upsell plan as per the BSA in conjunction with the Account Manager.
Requirements
• Min 4 years of Industry technical or operational experience.
• Min 2 years of sales experience.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to quickly gain a broad based knowledge of Weatherford Products and Services.