Sales Engineer - Hard Rock Mining

With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 10,000 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated nearly $2.4 billion in revenues in fiscal 2019. Learn more at www.kennametal.com.Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Sales Engineer - Hard Rock Mining

Location: Remote - preferred locations would be Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas, or near major airport

An excellent opportunity has been made available to join Kennametal as a Sales Engineer to support ourHard Rock Miningproduct portfolio withinNorth America. This role is critical to build and maintain strong customer relationships by providing customer support, technical expertise with Kennametal Hard Rock Mining customer base.

Responsibilities

• Educate and evaluate the needs of existing and potential customers to help develop the appropriate plan to meet and exceed customer performance expectations and Kennametal sales targets.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with OEMs.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of projects in CRM to drive the annual sales growth plan.
• Keep customers well informed about latest technology developments and product innovations.
• Regularly review the changes and dynamics of the market to ensure that the opportunities are in line with the company's strategy.
• Work closely with our manufacturing operations teams to ensure customer needs are met.
• Collaborate with our productmanagement anddevelopment teams to share customer needs and feedback.
• Prepare regular progress, status and forecast reports to management in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Participate in trade shows and customer events as needed.
• Can anticipate spending 50% of the time in front of end-users/customers.
• Learn about Kennametal Additive Manufacturing technology and capability and develop skills to perform business development activities for Additive Manufacturing.
  

Requirements

• An Associates orBachelor's degree in engineering or related program preferred.
• 2 to 5 years of industrial selling experience preferred.
• 2 to 5 years of OutsideSales experience Preferred
• An in-depth understandingof Kennametal wear products for mining applications preferred
• An innovative and self-motivated marketer who is able to work independently with little supervision.
• Competence with MS Office in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience Developing Relationships with customers

As part of our core values, Kennametal is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all people. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.