Sales Application Engineer (Illinois/Eastern Wisconsin)
MAPAL Dr. Kress SE & Co. KG
Port Huron, MI
Sales / Marketing, Business Development
- You develop and implement sales plans to achieve annual sales budget goal for your assigned territory.
- Business Development: Identify and capture new growth opportunities within the aerospace, automotive, and medical sectors.
- Channel Partner Development: Promote, train and manage the MAPAL product offering to local authorized distributor network partners.
- Problem Solving: Troubleshoot complex machining challenges involving milling, turning, and hole-making & hole-finishing.
- Technical Consulting: Conduct on-site tool testing and performance analysis to reduce cycle times and improve part quality.
- Value Selling: Demonstrate total cost of ownership (TCO) savings to procurement and engineering teams at end-user customers.
- Your education will include a mix of hands-on metal cutting manufacturing experience, military, and/or formal education equivalent to a Two to Four Year degree program in a technical discipline.
- Proficiency in CNC programming (G-code), tool geometry, and metallurgy.
- You will ideally have a minimum of five years of cutting tooling experience.
- You have a strong work ethic, self-motivated and must be able to work independently.
- You have excellent organization and time management skills.
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written).
- You have a strong ability as a presenter of product with the skills of persuasion and value selling.
- You are consultative, customer focused, and solutions oriented.
- You creatively solve problems.
- You must be able to travel up to 50% to meet with distributor partners and end-users within the sales region.
- You will be compensated well through a market competitive salary and commission plan.
- You will be eligible for full benefits on your first day with us! (medical, vision, dental, std, ltd, 401k)
- Based on your performance, you will have many opportunities for career development and advancement.
- MAPAL will train you both in the United States and abroad.
- We offer tuition reimbursement.
- We offer wellness programs.
About the company
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MAPAL Dr. Kress SE & Co. KG is one of the leading international suppliers of precision tools for the machining of practically all materials. The company founded in 1950 supplies leading customers from the automotive and aerospace industries and from machine and plant engineering. With its innovations the family-owned company sets trends and standards in production and machining technology. MAPAL sees itself as a technology partner, supporting its customers with the development of efficient and resource-conserving machining processes using individual tool concepts. The company is represented with production facilities, sales subsidiaries and representatives in 44 countries worldwide. In 2023 the MAPAL Group had 5,000 employees, generating sales of EUR 588 million.