ABB Nigeria Limited Job Vacancy for a Sales Specialist

ABB is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally.
For more than four decades, ABB is writing the future of industrial digitalization. With more than 70 million devices connected through its installed base of more than 70,000 control systems across all customer segments, ABB is ideally positioned to benefit from the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolution. With a heritage of more than 130 years, ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 135,000 employees.

ABB is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Sales Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Job Descriptions

• Sell products/systems/services within a designated market in accordance with strategy.
• Build long term customer relationships and manage resolution to specific customer needs and issues. Identify and develop sales opportunities.

• Establishes and maintains effective customer relationships to understand customer needs, promote customer understanding of full product/systems/ services offering, and align to provide a solution. Ensures a positive customer experience throughout the sales process.

• Creates added value for the customer and ABB by using effective sales techniques. Communicates details in accordance with ABB offering and strategy.

• Sells products/systems/services to customers, focusing on volume, mix and profitability targets for assigned Business Units/Product Groups.

• Prepares sales plans using company tools. Performs regular status reviews and proposes recovery plan(s) in cases of potential order shortfalls.

• Ensures efficient marketing activities and value proposition to customers.

• Identifies and drives the development of new market opportunities in the designated market and ensures know-how sharing and cross-collaboration.

• Experience 3 to 5 years in sales of electrical equipment.
• Electrical, Electronic or similar engineering.
• Willingness to travel 50%
• English language
• Proactivity, business vision, customer relationship capacity, desirable knowledge of CRM, risk analysis capacity, collaboration with product managers.
• Solid experience in the market knowledge OEMS and system integerators