Graduate Sales Engineer (m / f / d)

The Graduate Sales Engineering role is designed for early engineers who want to develop careers in technical sales, applications engineering, and technical marketing. You will benefit from extensive training programs, including training on NI products and related technologies, our sales process, public speaking, instructor skills, and on our customers and markets they serve.

We're looking for engineers who thrive in teams and enjoy time spent with customers discussing complex engineering problems. Applicants will demonstrate resilience and a passion to excel. The successful applicant will demonstrate confidence in sharing new ideas and strive to keep updated with market developments, competitors, customer demand, and new product lines to develop their technical acumen, customer understanding, and soft skills.

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

1. Spend your first months in rapid learning, gaining expertise with NI tools and our sales process while supporting NI customers and their technical challenges.
2. After months, you will partner with an Account Manager to support customer sales requests, provide demos, training, and customer configurations.
3. Balance your time between inbound sales demand, marketing generated leads, customer presentations and demos, and your prospecting activities to generate new demand and pipeline.
4. Develop test and measurement expertise to equip you for your future career.
5. Qualify demand and escalate opportunities to Account Managers to drive growth.
6. Provide coaching and mentorship to others within the team.
7. Work cooperatively with many departments at NI, including sales, marketing, technical support, operations, and business units.
8. Travel to customer sites to conduct training courses, lunch and learns, and product presentations.
9. Collaborate with our partner and distribution channel.
10. Create a business plan to drive business success in your territory, identifying the right actions and resources needed to support business outcomes.

Who You Are:

You keep in touch with customers. You make new connections and build relationships in other areas and teams. You attentively listen to others.

For This Role, You Will Need:

1. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering.
2. Strong desire to pursue a long-term career in technical sales, marketing, or applications engineering.
3. Solid understanding of electronics, computers, and high-level programming languages (C, Python, LabVIEW, etc).
4. Ability to relocate to Paris (FR), Milan (IT), Munich (DE), or Reading (UK) for a minimum of years.
5. Willingness to relocate elsewhere in Europe if interested in Sales or Applications Engineering path.
6. Available for moderate travel.
7. English language competency and effective communication skills.

Our Offer To You:

We understand the importance of work-life balance and are dedicated to supporting our employees' personal and professional needs. From competitive benefits plans to equitable opportunities for growth and development, we strive to create a workplace that is supportive and rewarding.

Our flexible work from home policy allows you to make the best of your time, by combining home office days with collaborative experiences in the office so that you can personalize your work-life mix.

We are committed to fostering a culture where every employee is valued and respected for their unique experiences and perspectives. We believe a diverse and inclusive work environment contributes to the rich exchange of ideas and diversity of thoughts, that inspires innovation and brings the best solutions to our customers.

Moreover, our employee resource group will empower you to connect with peers that share the same interest, promote diversity and inclusion, and positively contribute to communities around us. We are committed to providing an inclusive, open, and welcoming workplace environment for people, helping all to make the most of their professional potential.