Sales Engineer (East | Kolkata)
At a glance
Mid-level Solutions & Sales Engineering role at CRH. Kolkata.
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What you'll do
- Pursue construction projects and industry stakeholders to help the assigned market reach its sales targets
- Advise customers on safe, practical, cost-effective uses of Leviat products and resolve territory issues on site
- Build customer preference through pull-through sales strategies, product training, and consultative selling
- Research prospects, competitors, market activity, and industry trends to uncover opportunities and product ideas
- Work across functions while strengthening product knowledge and maintaining service standards
What you bring
- Strong sales performance in construction, preferably selling directly to precast, prestress, contractor, or fabricator customers
- The ability to explain products clearly and coach customers, dealers, and inside sales teams
- Technical judgment for recommending product solutions and addressing customer or sales problems
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-senior sales engineer who combines construction selling with pre-sales technical advice. You will work onsite in Kolkata and cover an assigned territory, including customer and project visits. The job involves educating customers, coordinating across functions, and supporting both sales and product development.
From the employer
Country: India
Req ID: 517455
Job Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: Onsite
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level
At Leviat, you can build a future with a lasting legacy.
As the global leader in construction accessories and engineered solutions, Leviat helps shape the built environment - responsibly, sustainably and at scale. With 60 locations worldwide, we combine global expertise with local insight to support some of the world’s most ambitious construction projects.
Our portfolio brings together trusted brands with decades of specialist experience in structural connections, reinforcement, anchoring and lifting systems. Together, we help make buildings safer, stronger and more efficient. Learn more about our business and trusted product brands at www.leviat.com
Working in partnership with architects, engineers and contractors around the world, we deliver innovative solutions and technical expertise that accelerate construction and enhance building performance.
At Leviat, expertise is valued, collaboration is encouraged and ambition is supported. Whatever your role, you will have opportunities to develop, specialise and make a meaningful impact on the built environment.
Our products are often unseen, yet essential; helping shape the places where people live, work and connect every day. Wherever construction demands precision, reliability and innovation, Leviat plays a critical role.
Own where your ambition can take you. With the support of a global business, you’ll be empowered to explore opportunities, grow your expertise and help build the future of construction.
Purpose of the Role
The Sales Engineer is responsible for both sales and pre-sales and provide technical solutions. The candidate is required to provide customers with technical advice on the use of Leviat brand products and to exploit market opportunities leading to increased brand awareness. Provide options and recommend safe, practical, and cost-effective solutions to problems encountered by specifiers and end users
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- High-performance sales experience in the construction industry (experience with direct sales to Precast/ Prestress customers, contractors and/or fabricators preferred).
- Ensure that assigned market meets or exceeds its sales goals by proactively pursuing on projects and industry stakeholders.
- Creates and implements Sales/Marketing pull through strategies for customers to increase brand and product market share. Identify business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry, researching and analyzing sales options.
- Provide timely, on-site identification, communication and resolution of product and sales issues within their assigned territories. Excellent communicator with the ability to coach and educate customers, dealers, or inside sales team on product.
- Deliver solutions for our customers through consultative selling and leveraging the broader capabilities of Leviat. Train our customers on the features, benefits and installation of new and existing products and create preference for our product portfolio within assigned territory
- Innovative spirit to work cross-functionally in developing organizational growth concepts and ideas
- Identify product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors. Continually improves ongoing product knowledge development
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, and participating in the promotional event
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards;
- To perform other duties as are necessary to execute core duties or other duties assigned by the reporting manager.
What we offer?
- We are a global business, looking to attract and retain the best talent
- A culture that values opportunity for growth, development and internal promotion
- Highly competitive base pay
- Pension contribution
- Hybrid and flexible working dependent on your role
- A range of other benefits, specific to your role and depending on where in the world you join us i.e. health care, medical insurance, discounted shopping
- Ongoing personal learning and development support
Leviat is an equal opportunities employer. We are commited to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please note that we cannot accept any applications submitted through email for GDPR purposes. Candidates must apply through our job portal. We do not accept candidate introductions for this position from recruitment agencies, unless you have been instructed to do so by our recruitment team.
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