HVAC Equipment Account Executive / Sales Engineer

HVAC Equipment Account Executive / Sales Engineer at Johnson Controls summary:

The HVAC Equipment Account Executive / Sales Engineer is responsible for selling Johnson Controls HVAC equipment and building control systems to contractors, designers, and owners, focusing on cultivating long-term customer relationships. The role involves technical sales expertise, business solution development, and managing renewable service agreements to grow account revenue. Candidates should have mechanical engineering background or HVAC sales experience and work onsite in the Birmingham or Huntsville, AL areas.

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What we offer

· Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

· Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one

· Encouraging and collaborative team environment

· Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

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What you will do

The HVAC Equipment Account Executive is responsible for the sale of Johnson Controls HVAC Equipment offerings to mechanical contractors, designers, consulting engineers and owners. You will promote the Johnson Controls value proposition to construction community by providing business and technical solutions and build and manage long term customer relationships/partnerships with assigned accounts.  You are responsible for customer satisfaction and loyalty while working in conjunction with operations partners and position renewable service agreements as a foundation of managed account relationships. You will also assist in promoting and selling Building Controls offerings in collaboration with branch Controls sales team. This position is onsite. Candidates must be commuting distance to Birmingham, AL and Huntsville, AL.

Get ready to execute the sales process to aid in cultivating and managing long-term relationships and in seeking out, qualifying and closing new sales opportunities and utilizes applicable sales tools effectively to plan and document progress as well as increase business opportunity in accounts.  You'll expand the depth and breadth of Johnson Controls offerings sold within assigned accounts with a focus on maximizing HVAC equipment sales and be a key member of our select account teams on key and target owner accounts.  You'll lead the account team on assigned target and key owner accounts where significant growth opportunities exist and more robust equipment expertise is required to solidify the opportunity and continually develop sales skills and to enhance knowledge of the JCI product and service offerings.

How you will do it

• Sells, with minimal supervision, the Johnson Controls offerings persuasively, persistently and confidently to all members of the construction community to include contractors, consultants and designers while reaching optimal profit levels. Manages multiple, ongoing, opportunities. In conjunction with construction events, sells, renews and expands renewable service agreements, including multi-year agreements, to both new and existing assigned customers.

• Builds partnering relationships with the owner construction community responsible for the decision-making process to drive the sale of Johnson Controls offerings.  Actively listens, probes and identifies concerns.  Understands the customer's business cycle customer base.  Demonstrates technical and business expertise and maintains a high level of credibility. Garners loyalty, trust and commitment from the customer.

• Seeks out, targets and initiates contact with multiple prospective customers in alignment with JCI strategy.  Develops and maintains a network of industry contacts.  Understands and leverages the sales process outcomes as well as demonstrates evidence of advancing the sale.  Shares technical knowledge plus business expertise with the customer to match the solution to

• the customer’s operational need and favorably position Johnson Controls.  Qualifies and assesses potential customers.

• Addresses customer's operational and environmental objectives, needs and requirements.  Recommends solutions and links customer objectives to total value solution and competitive advantage.  Differentiates Johnson Controls services and products from competitors by applying creativity, ingenuity, and innovation in a value-added sales approach.

• Positively and credibly influences JCI strategies with the construction community.  Frequently creates competitive, high quality and timely estimates, proposals, and cost/benefit analysis.  Effectively writes, and presents proposals. Negotiates value, addresses resistance and closes the sale.  Differentiates Johnson Controls as a total building environment supplier.

• Leverages Johnson Controls sales process to close sales quickly.  Manages the high activity of the pipeline in the managed CRM system with a focus on sales phase, close date, and probability of a close as well as other pertinent information.

• Acts as the customer’s advocate in interactions with Johnson Controls to ensure the customer obtains the best value from Johnson Controls offerings.  Sets appropriate customer expectations on Johnson Controls offerings.  Participates in final project inspection.  Ensures that the customer is trained and oriented to system operation and the value of services delivered.

What we look for

Required

Ideal Candidate - Mechanical engineer with HVAC Sales experience

• 3+ years of successful HVAC field technical sales experience or 3+ years of mechanical engineering professional experience

• Demonstrates a commitment to integrity and quality in business.

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred

• Commercial HVAC industry experience

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $72,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This role also offers a competitive Sales Incentive Plan that will take into account project, quarterly, and annual margin. This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at

Keywords:

HVAC sales, Sales engineer, Building controls, Mechanical engineering, Customer relationship management, Renewable service agreements, Technical sales, Construction industry sales, Johnson Controls, HVAC equipment