Technical Sales Account Executive

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The Technical Sales Account Executive promotes the sale of complex commodity and non-commodity structures NRG offers.  Working jointly with Sales, responsible for evaluating the customer need and assessing the appropriate path to deliver each product sold.  Technical Sales Originator will build customer relationships through pre-sale and post-sale strategy participation, client meetings, and sales support to increase cross-sell opportunities.  This position will serve as a resource to Portfolio Services regarding market intelligence and trend analysis. 

 

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Work with sales to analyze and present to customer/brokers on a wide variety of solutions, selecting the most relevant products and tools to meet client objectives
• Deliver market intelligence and interpretation to internal customers for the purpose of strategy building, trend awareness and arming others with information to communicate in the market
• Advocate and educate sales and internal stakeholders on complex commodity and non-commodity offer
• Contribute to the development of strategies and product offerings within Sales and support groups
• Developing strategy, tactics, sales plans, and profit targets
• Travel (up to 50%) to key customer and partner sites to represent commodity and non-commodity strategy and results to senior management

 

Working Conditions:

• Open office environment.
• Sensory attention:  Continual need to give concentrated attention where multiple stimuli are changing quickly and where 2 or more senses – hearing, seeing, touching, and tasking – must be used in coordination.
• Mental stress:  Continuous occurrence of strong demand for results and multiple simultaneous demands requiring decisions
• Travel – up to 25%

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required.  Concentration in engineering, economics, mathematics, or specific energy market analysis-related experience
• 3 or more years related to industry experience
• Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to regularly interact with internal and external senior management
• Able to create and articulate customer procurement strategies using effective rationale for recommendation and decisions
• Proficient with computer spreadsheet and database applications
• Strong understanding of the wholesale and retail energy markets