Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. MetFab Productivity Specialist Location: Columbia, SC Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. is seeking a Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative to join our team located in Columbia, SC. The Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative will provide support to sales team members to help grow sales revenues and profits, gain new strategic opportunities, and meet sales targets within an assigned a designated geographic area or group of customer accounts. The Welding Engineer - Technical Sales Representative will be an individual contributor who is accountable for serving as a specialist to obtain profitable contracts with large, key and/or complex accounts often driving a particular market segment. What we offer you! • Competitive compensation • Comprehensive benefit plan (medical, dental, vision and more) • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Paid time off (vacation, holidays, PTO) • Employee discount programs • Career growth opportunities Pay Range: $106,575 - $156,310, depending on Experience. Responsibilities - Provides guidance/support to sales colleagues, assists in all sales activity of sales team - Supports and pursues joint targets with other sales personnel - Focuses on profit improvement and gaining new opportunities - Improves the profitability of existing accounts by fully understanding the cost to serve and the value propositions for the accounts/customers - Develops knowledge and collects data on the account's business, products, processes, growth opportunities and customer - Promote sales, introduces the organization's programs and provides account service to assigned and potential customers - Focuses on new business development, maintaining customer relationships and troubleshooting specific customer problems - Develops customer needs analysis, including long- and short-term goals and tactics, pricing strategy and a renegotiation plan - Demonstrates products to new account customers. - Secure long-term relationship by negotiating straightforward agreements. - Maintains good coordination and communication with other sales groups, and functional groups, such as marketing, customer service, production, engineering, logistics, law and others, to ensure that the account strategies are aligned with the available resources and market objectives. - Understands competitive activity and strategies with in assigned area/group of customers. Monitor s competitive activity and maintains competitive intelligence databases. - Understands the value of Linde's products and application technology in developing pricing recommend-actions. Recognizes and expands opportunities at existing customers bringing solutions and value to customers. - Other duties as assigned Requirements - Degree preferred - 7+ years Outside Sales experience - Strong negotiation skills - Prior Industry experience is required - CWI or CWE certification preferred Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2022 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies, and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements, and emissions reductions. For more information about the company, please visit our website at www.lindeus.com. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.