Technical Sales Engineer – Automation And Advanced Process Control

Working with the Minerals Sales Team in Asia-Pacific, we are looking for successful, ambitious, and experienced Technical Sales Engineer highly skilled in Automation and Advanced Process Control within Mineral Processing applications.

Joining the digital sales team, the successful candidate will be responsible for focusing on Metso’s market leading products within the Minerals Automation and Digital Portfolio.

The role will focus on growth and management of sales opportunities related to our intelligent instruments (Sense products) and Advanced Process Control solutions, whilst demonstrating a solid understanding of samplers, particle and metallurgical analyzers and digital twins.

This role will be focused on developing business with existing customers, and therefore, a passion for travelling, engaging with customers, and understanding of customer operations is a must-have.

Together with Technical Sales support, proposals managers and product line management, you will identify customer challenges and goals, to proactively provide recommendations and solutions to meet customer requirements.

In addition, the successful candidate will act as a product expert in the Market Area (Asia-Pacific) by working in conjunction with existing Metso customers, customer account managers and the Automation and digital product teams to build the opportunity funnel and deliver Minerals Automation Solutions to our customers. 

Ideally, the position is in Brisbane, Queensland or Perth, Western Australia.
As a Technical Sales Engineer, you will:

• Be responsible for growing the Minerals Automation portfolio in Asia-Pacific, with a strong focus on intelligent instruments, and Advanced Process Control
• Grow existing opportunities and identify new opportunities by understanding customer challenges and goals and proposing suitable solutions
• Review inquiries and work with customers and stakeholders to determine the scope of supply and selection of the solution/s to provide the “best-fit” solution offering to their challenge
• Develop and communicate compelling value propositions to convert opportunities to sales
• Ensure technical and commercial integrity of the proposed solutions with the goal to meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities for the Minerals Automation portfolio into other solution offerings
• Continuously follow-up the opportunity pipeline with customers and internal stakeholders
• Comply with sales process and proposals
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the market and competitor proposition
• Present the Minerals Automation portfolio, its capabilities and business value to customers and internal stakeholders
• Attend business meetings with clients as required
• Promote Metso’s automation portfolio at trade shows, conferences, webinars and customer-seminars
• Contribute to sales materials, budgeting, continuous improvement of tools and way of working
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation of portfolio by sharing the customer and market feedback and ideas
• Develop and implement effective sales and business development strategies, with the emphasis on solution selling

About you:

You are an advanced Process Control Engineer with at least 5-years of practical experience in Technical Sales, metallurgy, Advanced Process Control or mineral processing – with site experience highly regarded.

• Successful track-record of sales achievements
• Excellent ability to understand technical solutions for Advanced Process Control for mineral processing applications
• Good capability to understand technical documentation, drawings, process flow and instrumentation diagrams
• Passion for continuous learning in mineral and metallurgical processing, industrial automation, digital technologies, and solutions
• Demonstrated capability of meeting strict time constraints, task prioritization and managing expectations of internal and external customers
• Fluent verbal and written communication in English language for external and internal meetings and presentations, success stories & articles, webinars, social media
• Good command of MS Office software tools, Salesforce CRM and virtual meeting systems
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to relate well to all types of people
• Results driven whilst maintaining a teamwork focus
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, domestic and abroad - minimum 50% 
• A high degree of commercial acumen. (i.e., excellent communication skills, business development, contract negotiation, marketing skills) and a good understanding of common commercial terms, business models and practices used in international trade

We will offer: 

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Additional Annual Leave benefit for all permanent and maximum term employees
• Flexibility in your working lifestyle – our team manages their own balance of working from home and in our office environment
• And much more!