Salary
💰 $165,000 - $245,000 per year
About the role
- Prospect, advance, and close new Hardware Services sales by collaborating with the Account Sales team
- Own the end-to-end sales cycle of an assigned pipeline of custom Hardware Services Agreements coming up for a renewal
- Lead On-site/Virtual customer meetings to build credibility and guide deep technical and business discovery
- Create custom proposals outlining entitlements to best fit customer needs and validate financial models supporting the value
- Marshal internal resources (Legal, Contracts, Support) to provide unified NI team and customer facing message
- Work with customer Legal, Procurement, Engineering Management, and Test Operations to navigate the agreement sales/buying process
- Act as the primary deal negotiator and expert on behalf of NI
- Serve as an escalation path for other Services opportunities such as Resident Engineering and Custom Engineering
- Coordinate and lead cross-functional teams across Account Managers, Operations, Product Planning, Support, Contracts and Legal
Requirements
- 8+ years of sales experience or equivalent services experience
- Demonstrated track record of achieving revenue objectives
- Strong time management and long-term initiative focus
- Expertise in selling business value to key decision makers and managers
- Ability to work under pressure/conflict from tenured counter negotiators
- Ability to formulate and implement creative strategies to win complex opportunities
- Experience leading and coaching through influence and marshaling cross-functional resources
- (Preferred) Understanding and experience selling hardware services: repair, calibration, sparing, lifecycle engineering, obsolescence management
- (Preferred) Experience in sales negotiations involving business terms
- (Preferred) Understanding of the automated test market
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident (no visa sponsorship)