How do they match: Sales Engineers

Attend company training seminars to become familiar with product lines.
Attend trade shows and seminars to promote products or to learn about industry developments.
Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products, and to provide sales support.
Create sales or service contracts for products or services.
Develop sales plans to introduce products in new markets.
Keep informed on industry news and trends, products, services, competitors, relevant information about legacy, existing, and emerging technologies, and the latest product-line developments.
Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers.
Recommend improved materials or machinery to customers, documenting how such changes will lower costs or increase production.
Research and identify potential customers for products or services.
Sell products requiring extensive technical expertise and support for installation and use, such as material handling equipment, numerical-control machinery, or computer systems.
Visit prospective buyers at commercial, industrial, or other establishments to show samples or catalogs, and to inform them about product pricing, availability, and advantages.
Write technical documentation for products.

Advise customers on the use of products or services.
Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services.
Demonstrate products to consumers.
Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel.
Explain technical product or service information to customers.
Gather customer or product information to determine customer needs.
Recommend products or services to customers.
Sell products or services.

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