Business Development Engineer

Business Development Engineer
Location: Chennai/ Bangalore
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday to Friday (5 day work week) 8.30-5.30pm

About Our Company
Founded in 1945 as a custom coil maker, we are now a multi-location company which produces inductors for a long list of customers in telecommunications, computers, instrumentation and consumer electrical products.

We are now looking for a hands-on, driven and people-oriented Business Development Engineer to coordinate all interactions with our customers to ensure that their requirements have been met with promptly and to generate new business leads. This is a people fronting role which is ideal for someone organised, proactive, meticulous and with good communication skills

Key Responsibilities

Lead Generation

Search for new clients who might benefit from company products or services.
Identify, plan and forecast opportunities through sales pipelines management.

Technical Sales Management

Understand customer business requirements and preferences.
Ability to demonstrate product knowledge by providing information on product features to customers.
Prepare and deliver compelling technical presentations.
Visiting customer on regular basis based on Sales Leads, Cold calls based lead generation, work as a team to grow the number of design wins with electronic product OEMs / EDS companies.
Work closely with customers R&D, sourcing/purchase team, skilled in market intelligence.
Good understanding of the electronics industry across the verticals - telecom, Semi-con, automotive, medical, industrial and defence. Preferably good knowledge about Bangalore/South India Market.

Customer Loyalty Management

Develop long-term relationships with clients.

Gain a foothold as the preferred supplier.

Support continuous improvement of logistics processes
Carry out any other ad-hoc duties assigned by Management

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor in Electrical & Electronics Engineering preferred or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years of relevant work experience in Sales, Marketing or Business Development field.
• Sales/product knowledge in Electronic Components will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in both English and one or two South Indian languages.
• Good customer handling skills required.
• Excellent skills in writing business e-mails and proficient skills in MS Office.
• Natural sales ability.
• Located in reasonable travelling proximity of Coilcrafts offices in Chennai/ Bangalore and owns a valid driving license.
• Willing and able to travel domestically, up to 20% of the time with a highly flexible schedule.

What We Offer

• Stable, long-term employment
• Supportive and collaborative work environment
• Hands-on role with opportunity to collaborate with customers, Engineering, Manufacturing and other internal/ external stakeholders
• Good work life balance

How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, including current and expected salary, and availability.