Sales Trainer

Job Summary

This position is responsible for the Training and Development of the Asia Sales Team – reporting to the Senior Manager of Global Training.

The Asia Sales Trainer helps the Sales Team maximize their impact by teaching them sales skills, organizational skills and product demonstration techniques needed in today’s competitive environment. Cognex makes the best machine vision and ID products in the world. The Sales Trainer’s function is to convey that message to the Sales Team and get them excited to prove it to our customers.

This position requires strong collaboration and partnership with the product business units, sales leadership, and corporate employee services (HR). In this role, you will develop techniques and strategies to deliver the right message with energy, enthusiasm and fun.

This position is also responsible for promoting the Cognex Culture to the team and should embodies and core values of Cognex including Work Hard, Play Hard and Move Fast.

Essential Functions :

• Conduct ‘Boot Camp’ training sessions for new sales employees. Training classes include instructor-led sessions, live online sessions and e-learning.
• Assess skills and needs of sales staff and develop training modules and schedules to meet the need.
• Conduct skills and competency testing of sales staff to ensure staff is at required levels.
• Teach selling skills, soft skills as well as technical product training.
• Track results of training sessions completed by sales staff.
• Update training courses based on latest Cognex product offerings.
• Use gamification and other creative methods to keep training sessions engaging.
• Infuse the Cognex Culture of Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast into training offering.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Minimum education and work experience required :