
Service Sales Specialist
Hitachi
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Vaesteras • 🇸🇪 Sweden
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
SFDC
About the role
- You implement the service sales strategy and growth plans, engaging with the installed base (IB) to promote upgrades and value-added solutions.
- You use IB data to identify and develop sales opportunities for Service products and solutions, focusing on the entire Hitachi Energy Service portfolio.
- You conduct sales calls, perform customer facility walk-throughs, generate sales leads, and develop new market opportunities based on market trends.
- You establish long-term customer relationships, understand their requirements and regulations, demonstrate technical knowledge, and ensure customer satisfaction.
- You sell the service product portfolio, monitor sales proposals and tenders, prepare service offerings, communicate contract details, and manage the administrative sales process.
- You act as a marketer and salesperson during marketing activities, translating customer needs into relevant service offerings and solutions.
- You contribute to risk assessments, register information into SFDC, ensure technical reliability, safety, and cost-effective solutions, and comply with health and safety directives.
- You provide technical direction for service sales training to less-experienced staff and support management with key data and insights on markets and effective service selling tactics.
Requirements
- You have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, in an Engineering or technical discipline.
- You have at least 5 years of experience in sales, sales support, and/or service of power systems/solutions.
- If you have experience working with electric substation equipment (i.e. IED, RTU, SCADA, Communications, etc.), recent technical sales and/or client-facing experience presenting electric substation equipment solutions, this is is highly preferred.
- Being familiar with Operations & Maintenance practices of electric substation equipment and substation construction is expected of you.
- To be successful in this position we see that you have experience negotiating long term substation service contracts, or other contracts that could be seen as equal.
- Familiarity with multiple Hitachi Energy power products and services.
- Must be fluent in English.
- Fluency in Swedish is considered very advantageous.
Benefits
- Collective agreement
- Flexible working time
- Health care and wellness allowance
- Fantastic career possibilities within Hitachi Energy both within Sweden and globally
- Mentor to support you throughout onboard phase
- Various trainings and education supporting employee development
- Diversified company with over 70+ nationalities working in Sweden
- Supplementary compensation for parental leave
- Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
sales strategyservice salessales proposalstechnical knowledgerisk assessmentsservice offeringsnegotiating contractspower systemselectric substation equipmentOperations & Maintenance practices
Soft skills
customer relationship managementcommunicationcustomer satisfactionmarket analysisteam leadershiptrainingproblem-solvingdata analysissales tacticscustomer needs assessment
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineeringtechnical discipline