IP&E Field Applications Engineer

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Requirements:

• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions
• Works independently; receives minimal guidance
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Represents the level at which career may stabilize for many years or even until retirement
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products/services or processes
• Typically resolves complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist
• Often leads the work of project teams; may formally train junior staff
• Works independently
• Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a 4 year degree; or 6 years and an advanced degree; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing an advanced understanding of the customer needs and technical leadership expertise to champion return on engineering investment.
• Participate as technical lead on large, complex customer engagements involving broad, system solutions and identify and drive demand creation by maximizing Arrow content on designs.
• Partner with the sales team across pre-and post-sales activities, providing advanced technical support and consulting to promote demand creation.
• Champion return on engineering investment, design win priorities, initiatives, and promotions by obtaining buy-in and support from sales.
• Provide technical leadership to the branch, customers, and suppliers shaping strategy and guiding technical direction/priorities.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of supplier technologies and how those technologies relate to market needs, including vertical segmentation.
• Position Arrow’s differential value proposition, supplier technologies, as well as, competitor technologies.
• Possess a complete knowledge of products and full knowledge of entire scope of assigned lines.
• Manage supplier and customer expectations by building and developing relationships with senior level decision makers, keeping stakeholders up-to-date on activities, plans, and progressing towards initiatives.
• Deepen and broaden connections with key decision makers within suppliers and customers.
• Attend and actively participate in strategic branch meetings and QBR.
• Use ROI concepts for making strategic business plans and decisions.
• Develop and drive strategic technical plans by supplier line or customer solutions.
• Participate in ArrowEDGE initiatives through branch training and customer calls.
• Successfully create, organize and conduct engineering customer events or conference or engineering training.
• Support design services initiatives.