Eaton’s Life Safety Division is currently seeking a Sales Representative supporting Fire Safety, Life Safety products to join our team. This position is based at our Mississauga, ON location. 

Position Overview:

As a leading supplier in the Life Safety market, Eaton provides decades of experience and innovation. With advanced technological solutions, Eaton helps their clients respond to threats by delivering the right message to the right people at the right time. Eaton’s solutions include SAFEPATH voice evacuation systems and Wheelock notification appliances.   The Canadian & International Sales Representative is responsible for managing existing customers while focusing on developing and closing new business opportunities within key sophisticated vertical markets.

Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.

In this function you will:

• Provide support to the Sales Manager in the field, supporting both customers and intercompany sales
• Develop new relationships that will impact growth within targeted areas.
• Manage and coordinate the distributor & integrator network already established
• Aggressively manage and track business opportunity pipeline
• Support all technical sales activity in Canada & International markets (excluding USA)
• Provide accurate and detailed sales-based reports to Sales Manager
• Maintain a CRM System & provide accurate forecasts to Sales Manager 
• Support other business development initiatives as needed.
• Promote the company’s mission and vision by actively supporting Eaton’s ethics and values as well as quality policies.
• Implement short, medium and long-term strategic and tactical plans that promote the SAFPATH voice solutions

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Highschool diploma from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Fire and Life Safety systems products and/or services, focused in the commercial, institutional, and/or industrial market space
• Must possess and maintain a valid & unrestricted driver’s license
• Ability to travel internationally
• Must live within 80 km of Mississauga, ON

Preferred qualifications:

• Successful track record of building lasting relationships with distributors, end users, Intercompany leaders and sales teams
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Possess strong project and program management skills demonstrating attention to detail
• Strive for excellence in customer service and sales performance
• Self-motivated needing little daily supervision to outperform expectations
• Work closely with all areas of Eaton’s ELS customer service teams to ensure customer satisfaction
• Effective management of a counter style distributors
• Great communication skills

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

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We make what matters work. Everywhere you look—from the technology and machinery that surrounds us, to the critical services and infrastructure that we depend on every day—you’ll find one thing in common. It all relies on power. That’s why Eaton is dedicated to improving people’s lives and the environment with power management technologies that are more reliable, efficient, safe and sustainable. Because this is what matters.

We are confident we can deliver on this promise because of the attributes that our employees embody. We’re ethical, passionate, accountable, efficient, transparent and we’re committed to learning. These values enable us to tackle some of the toughest challenges on the planet, never losing sight of what matters.

Job: Sales

Region: Europe, Middle East, Africa
Organization: Electrical Sector

Job Level: Individual Contributor
Schedule: Full-time
Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: No
Does this position offer relocation?: No
Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time