Product & Innovation Engineer - Technical Solution M/F

DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Sales Director, you will work in close connection with customers, the sales team, and supplier partners.

This Product & Innovation Engineer - Technical Solution M/F role is at the crossroads of technical, marketing, purchasing, and sales/commerce.

You are the technical and market expert for your product range.

You will intervene on:

• catalog products
• partner solutions, distributed by the company
• responses to calls for tenders
• Your main missions:

Commercial Expert

• Structure and draft a commercial offer for a client
• Explain the technical functioning of your products to clients
• Defend your commercial offer to clients - listen / understand and respond to the client's technical needs
• Relationship management with the sales team
• Train the sales team on products, solutions, and new releases in your range

Range Management & Product Expertise

• Manage your product range on the market: positioning, evolutions, market consistency
• Respond to technical and pricing requests from sales teams
• Support sales representatives on specific price / solution requests
• Maintain a strategic vision of your product range / ideas for product and solution development
• Ensure technological and competitive intelligence to keep your range attractive

Partner Relations & Sourcing

• Identify and source new products and suppliers
• Manage partner relationships (weekly exchanges, trade fairs)
• Negotiate pricing conditions
• Report, synthesize, and share key information with internal teams

Sales Support & Calls for Tenders

• Structure the drafting of a commercial offer for a client
• Explain the technical functioning of your products to clients
• Defend your commercial offer to clients - listen / understand and respond to the client's technical needs
• Relationship management with the sales team
• Train the sales team on products, solutions, and new releases in your range

Development & Market Visibility

• Participate in trade fairs in France and internationally
• Build product arguments (materials produced by the communication department)

REQUIREMENTS

Profile sought:

• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar position, related to technical products (electricity, automation, mechanics, electronics, vision, etc.), and have held roles such as: engineer, application engineer, business manager, technical salesperson, pre-sales engineer, product development, product manager, etc., in a technical and industrial environment.
• You have technical training and/or proven experience in an industrial environment. You can thus rely on your technical skills and knowledge to respond to client requests, advise them, and contribute to the development of your product range.
• Client relations play an important role in this position. You are comfortable in exchanges with clients, know how to build relationships, understand their needs, and provide appropriate responses.
• You are comfortable in an international environment and practice English in a professional setting to be able to exchange easily with suppliers, the group, and clients.

Proposed conditions:

• Fixed + variable remuneration
• Contract: 39h / week
• RTT: 9 days

Recruitment process:

• A first interview via video call with the Sales Director
• A second interview on-site with the Sales Director and the company management.