Sales Specialist Grid Automation

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Due to business expansion, Hitachi Energy Ireland are hiring a Technical Sales Specialist for Grid Automation. A hybrid role with our prestigious office in central Dublin.

You will have an engineering background, combined with experience, expertise and knowledge of the power industry, automation, and control.  Ideally your skill set with be within

areas such as tendering, engineering, project management, or sales in areas of Protection, SCADA or Mission Critical Communications – You will have applied an engineering angle in areas like supporting proposals, executing projects, installation and commissioning or maintenance and collaborated with clients as a credible and trusted expert.

Confident at operating directly with customers to both protect and grow market share, you’ll have the skills to build relationships with account and to develop business partnerships, drawing from your practical know- how and technical understanding.  In our sales process, you will assess customer needs and suggest appropriate products, services, and or

solutions. Support the development and delivery of bids/proposals/presentations and conduct product demonstrations and drive results to increase sales growth.

You will demonstrate the drive and determination to succeed. Helping deliver medium to long-term business growth plans and inputting into strategies to protect, grow, and diversify the relationship with targeted clients. You will be a clear, concise communicator who can translate and interpret technical information in a way that’s relevant, solution focused and easy to understand.  Through your exceptional interpersonal skills, you’ll communicate to customers as well as your internal colleagues.

Working as part of a team, you will apply your depth of practical knowledge plus educational qualifications with a consultative sales approach to sell directly to the ultimate purchaser and indirectly via channel partners.  

The Role:

• Successfully growing our market participation within our Grid Automation portfolio of new and existing customers
• Developing customer contacts by through knowledge and expertise
• Close collaboration with the wider business and external parties
• Working to Hitachi Energy's quality standards and procedures
• Exploring innovation and a solution focused mindset in interpreting the energy market and understanding the driving factors
• Working with the tender team, project managers and engineers to contribute and collaborate on opportunities.
• Applying financials, costs analysis when scoping business opportunities for new growth and expanding existing market participation

Your Background:

• Educated with an Electrical/Electronics/Engineering Degree or equivalent
• Relevant industry knowledge  

• A background in any of the following: Project management, Engineering, Tendering, Service, or Operations
• Technical expertise and knowledge of Grid Automation/SCADA/Mission Critical Communications
• Knowledge of the Ireland market and based in Ireland within commutable distance to Dublin.

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