Essential Functions:
Properly forecast and close vision solutions opportunities with End Users, Partners, and OEMs to reach the quota goal.
Utilize the Cognex sales process to effectively demonstrate products to customers and winning large strategic opportunities.
Follows up on sales leads and schedules customer visits, seeking out large opportunities.
Effectively conducts customer visits in a solution sales environment.
Collaborate with counterparts from other territories on opportunities that are either integrated or installed in a different territory or where the decision makers do not reside in the Account Manager’s territory.
Follow up on customer inquiries, understand system requirements, and differentiate the Cognex solution.
Assists at trade shows and other marketing events.
Coordinate evaluations utilizing the Applications Engineering team.
Maintain and continuously update project information in Sales Book.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Proven track record of sales performance in the automation or similar industry.
Proven track record of operating in a solutions sales environment.
Uses defined sales process to deliver desired results on a consistent basis.
PC literate with a working knowledge of MS Windows applications.
Ability to travel 40% of the time is required.
Ability to work independently is required.
Minimum education and work experience required:
Technical Degree or equivalent work experience.
Proven sales experience and a good track record for exceeding sales targets is required.
Experience in selling technical products to all levels of an organization is required.
Experience in selling vision products is also preferred.
Skills Required
- Technical degree or equivalent work experience
- Proven sales experience with a strong track record of exceeding sales targets
- Experience selling technical products to all levels of an organization
- Proven track record of sales performance in the automation or similar industry
- Proven success operating in a solutions sales environment
- PC literate with working knowledge of MS Windows applications
- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time
- Ability to work independently
- Experience selling machine vision / vision products
Cognex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognex and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognex.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and dental coverage are included, and coverage is described as good compared to alternatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A PTO/Vacation policy is in place and time off is generally considered reasonable; time away is treated as actual downtime without expectations to work.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is offered and is characterized as solid, though not best-in-class.
Cognex Insights
What We Do
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of image-based products, all of which use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that give them the human-like ability to make decisions on what they see. Cognex products include machine vision systems, machine vision sensors and barcode readers that are used in factories and distribution centers around the world where they eliminate production and shipping errors. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 4 million image-based products, representing over $10 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, Cognex has offices and distributors located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For details visit Cognex online at www.cognex.com.
