Solar Sales Consultant

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Irish green energy market is growing, and our Client is recruiting for professional salespeople to capture and create new business. They are a market leader with a busy marketing schedule including trade exhibitions to create enquiries and an awareness of the brand in the market.  

The Candidate’s target markets include SME’s and Large Energy Users on a path to decarbonisation. The product range includes the market leading battery storage, quality PV modules and car chargers. 

LOCATION - Working from home but visiting the Client’s offices in Wexford 1 day per week. (More during training)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Become an expert with respect to products and solutions in the solar & storage industry. Introducing new products/market developments to prospective clients. 
• Generation of leads through networking & initiative. Engaging customers and actively selling the solution through a passion for renewables and a thorough knowledge of the technology. 
• Finding prospects, preparing presentations, following up on business opportunities and setting meetings.  
• Achieving set monthly sales targets. 
• Contacting direct enquiries for his / her sales area, gathering information, and conducting desktop surveys. Estimating system size, yield and payback from information provided. 
• Planning weekly site surveys, assessing feasibility, optimal system size and system design, identifying any technical challenges. Recording the necessary level of detail for design/operations. 
• Informing the client on the feasibility of the project and its implementation. 
• Completing a handover to operations for all sales.  
• Managing communications with clients to optimise customer journey through the sales process up to, handover to operations.  
• Logging all activity on the CRM system and managing sales pipeline.  
• Imparting people-centred company values and building brand awareness. 

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 6 years hands on industry experience in implementing best practices for product design and development.
• Experience working in SAFe framework, for example:
  • Participation in PI planning
  • Lead sprint refinement, sprint planning sessions
  • Manage resource capacity, demand and business stakeholders
  • Provide business and technical assistance to unblock developers
  • Agile SCRUM software methodology experience using products such as JIRA Agile
  • Promote continuous improvement and innovation in the team
  • Constantly strive to improve team velocity and efficiency.
• Worked with microservices in an enterprise level product, Web API, API security
• Must have analytical skills and experience to achieve tangible results in a challenging environment
• Ability to prioritize workload, must be highly organized, detail-oriented, handle various tasks simultaneously and work independently within limited time constraints

THE PERSON

An energetic, personable, honest, and detail-orientated person who is highly self-motivated. Capable of engaging customers and actively selling products/solutions through a genuine passion for renewables and helping businesses to lower their Carbon footprint. Committed to growing your business and building brand awareness by imparting people-centred company values whilst at the same time showing real tenacity in reaching monthly sales targets. 

To be considered for this role please send your CV to careers@innovate.ie