Sales Engineer

Career Mobility Policy:

Bentley strives to support colleagues’ development and provide opportunities for them to achieve their career aspirations in alignment with Bentley objectives and strategy. To foster colleague development while supporting cross functional collaboration and a one Bentley mindset, it's expected that you:

Complete twelve (12) months of employment in your current position and are in good standing with regards to performance in current role before applying for another role within Bentley.
Apply for open roles in the Career Opportunities page to be considered for a role.
Strongly consider notifying your current manager at the time you apply.
If selected for a role you applied for, you are expected to notify your current manager when an offer is extended, and before you accept the offer.
For more information, please see Bentley's Career Mobility Policy.

Position Summary:

Product Sales Engineers are focused on finding new business opportunities for assigned brands with new accounts or within existing accounts at Bentley. They are responsible for selling product licenses and subscriptions as well as services related to those product licenses and subscriptions.

Product Sales Engineers are responsible for achieving assigned sales quotas and goals for users and prospects located within a defined geographic territory and specific product range.

Product Sales Engineers are expected to prospect and develop business, respond to RFPs and other incoming sales leads, develop proposals and give presentations and demonstrations to existing users and prospects, all in close cooperation with Account Managers. They coordinate resources and collaborate with other Bentley colleagues where and when necessary. They devote considerable amount of time to visiting prospects, existing users and sales events in their assigned territory.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Responsible for selling assigned brands into both net new and existing users.
• Creating effective business plans, prospecting for net new business opportunities and driving sales in assigned territory to exceed quota.
• Develop relationships at various levels including C-Level, VPs, Directors with target accounts through use of direct sales techniques and conduct on-site meetings.
• Develop a sales pipeline and forecast all revenue by effectively following sales process and managing all opportunities in CRM. Adhere to the Bentley Sales Process fully utilizing SAP Cloud for Sales (C4S) as a daily sales tool and reporting system.
• Promote our value proposition to designers, engineers, architects, contractors and owners by providing technical solutions to help the customer's meet or exceed business objectives.
• Deliver software demonstrations for qualified prospects and users.
• Participate in relevant exhibitions, trade shows, and other events.
• Maintain a detailed knowledge and understanding of all Commercial Offerings and Software Support Policies.
• High level use and comfort utilizing social media and prospecting intelligence resources.
• Negotiate sales and/or service agreements.
• Maintain a high knowledge level of the company's solutions and services.

What You Bring to The Team:

• You have a Bachelor's degree in geotechnical engineering, civil engineering or equivalent level achieved through experience.
• You gained engineering experience (preferably 2 to 3 years), like the engineering world but found out that you don’t want to be a practicing engineer.
• Preferably you hold an applicable professional qualification (for example PE, CE, …)
• You have commercial talent with a minimum 1-2 years’ experience in sales or customer service and you can close a deal in a pleasant non-intrusive manner.
• You are a self-starter.
• You combine customer focus with being service oriented and highly motivated.
• You have a positive attitude, eye for detail, are resourceful and inquisitive.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively present information to users and prospects via phone, web and face-to-face.
• Software proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is required.
• You should have the ability to travel up to 50% of your time.
• Living in or close to the designated sales territory is essential.

About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.