What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Sales Manager - Brightlayer (Central Region) position at Eaton?
Eaton’s ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Software Sales Manager - Brightlayer (Central Region). This role offers flexibility, as it can be remote in Woodridge, IL, Southfield, MI, Indianapolis, IN, Chanhassen, MN, or Fenton, MO, as well as hybrid at Eaton Center in Beachwood, OH.
What You’ll Do
Are you a driven sales leader, resourceful and motivated by a challenge! If so, and you are looking for the next step in your career, Eaton’s North American Sales Division is currently seeking a Software Sales Manager for our Central Region to join our team.
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Sales Manager to join Eaton’s Brightlayer Sales team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving software sales revenue through a hybrid sales approach, including direct, overlay, and channel sales. This role will be closely aligned with the adjacent Eaton sales teams within the Northeast territory. The ideal candidate will possess a strong desire to excel in a fast-paced, matrixed, and entrepreneurial environment. The candidate will also be focused, goal-oriented, and have a competitive nature.
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
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
Position Criteria:
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
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.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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What You’ll Do
Are you a driven sales leader, resourceful and motivated by a challenge! If so, and you are looking for the next step in your career, Eaton’s North American Sales Division is currently seeking a Software Sales Manager for our Central Region to join our team.
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Sales Manager to join Eaton’s Brightlayer Sales team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving software sales revenue through a hybrid sales approach, including direct, overlay, and channel sales. This role will be closely aligned with the adjacent Eaton sales teams within the Northeast territory. The ideal candidate will possess a strong desire to excel in a fast-paced, matrixed, and entrepreneurial environment. The candidate will also be focused, goal-oriented, and have a competitive nature.
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
- Identify and establish market and industry relationships to drive Eaton software solutions more broadly in the region.
- Team with Eaton sales and account management resources to find and manage software sales opportunities. Lead the software discussions with customers from the technical user levels to the C-suite.
- Build relationships with channel partners to provide technical and sales training and collateral to better enable the partner ecosystem to build software sales pipelines.
- Conduct software webinars, training, and demo sessions to educate and inform market or customer audiences.
- Assist prospective customers with architecture and integration details as part of the pre-sales efforts to close software business opportunities. This includes responses to RFP process required as part of sales opportunities.
- Possess a strong understanding of value and benefits of the software for the both the channel partner and end customer conversations.
- Manage and track pipeline activity in sales CRM software with a goal to maximize the market share of the software solutions.
- Possess strong understanding of complementary hardware solutions which will be included in solution sales opportunities. Hardware will include facility and rack power distribution, environmental sensors, cooling infrastructure and physical access solutions deployed by customers to supported locations.
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum 7 years Technical Software sales experience
- Minimum 5 years outcomes selling, consultative, software solution selling experience to executive and technical buyers
- Possess and maintain a valid drivers license.
- No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Boston, MA, New York, NY or Philadelphia, PA.
- Sponsorship is not provided. All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future
- 5 years of experience developing and translating business use cases to solution requirements and architecture documentation, with focus on software solutions.
- Experience selling network/edge or data management
- Understanding of standard enterprise networking infrastructure concepts
Position Criteria:
- Deep domain expertise in infrastructure monitoring software and related infrastructure hardware components.
- Established presence in the region with channel contacts to quickly grow selling capabilities of the software solutions. Presentation experience
- Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) command line capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Time Management Skills
- Self-Starter
- Leadership
- Strategic thinking to enable impactful business decisions
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
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.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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Salary : $99,750 - $146,300
