Technical Account/Sales Executive – multiple locations

Technical Account/Sales Executive – growing company!

Do you have a mechanical/engineering mindset?  Experience in both sales and account management in the world of CNC machining?  Does the opportunity to use your strong technical sales skills with a growing, cutting edge manufacturer get you excited?  If so, read on!  Plethora is building the future of manufacturing with a new kind of robotic factory that automatically turns digital designs into physical products in days, not months.  Our modern best-in-class machine shop provides end to end manufacturing from design to delivery.  We are seeking a Technical Account/Sales Executive to join our talented team.  This is a wonderful opportunity to bring your sales skills to a high velocity growth stage company.

Why join Plethora?

We are much more than your traditional manufacturer.  Founded in 2013 by an inventor and software developer, Plethora is a new kind of factory that streamlines hardware development from product design to end product .  Our team is a combination of curious experts, seasoned professionals and driven innovators.  Our vision is to transform product actualization by making the manufacturing process fast, transparent, and predictable.  Our low touch process enables developers to go from ideation to real product in record time.  Plethora produces innovative software, hardware, and fully integrated systems at scale few have seen.  Our culture is based on accountability, quality results, collaboration and transparency and best described as a highly complex, dynamic and team oriented environment.  We value our employees tremendously – we offer generous health benefits, catered lunch once a week, and an all -around great group of people to work with.  For more information, please visit www.plethora.com.

About the position:

This is primarily a hunter focused role with some account management responsibilities.  Reporting to the Director of Sales, key accountabilities include:

  • Generating new client business, closing sales and growing accounts to meet revenue and margin goals
  • Achieving predefined sales goals in order to contribute to the company’s yearly revenue goals
  • Developing new client leads and maintaining a healthy pipeline with high conversion rates
  • Promoting our company in the industry and seeking client accounts that best fit with our services
  • Participating in all internal sales meetings to facilitate knowledge sharing and provide optimal progress updates to the sales team and management
  • Attending seminars, conferences and meetings focused on building new business and maximizing revenue
  • Documenting all sales activity in the company CRM system

Skills, Experience and Knowledge required:

  • Excellent understanding of the CNC machining industry
  • Deep contacts in the aerospace, medical, automotive, industrial mechanical, or food & beverage industries, preferably with an established book of business in these industries
  • Strong technical B2B solution selling in machining, industrial sales environments
  • Proven sales skills including lead generation, prospecting, cold calling, qualifying and closing including ability to identify and influence key decision makers
  • Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related technical field is a plus