Sales Engineer - CDK Data Services, Inc.

  • Full-time

Company Description

ADP Dealer Services is now CDK Global.

Stability meets Agility.  CDK is one of the largest technology providers to the automotive industry, with more than 26,000 dealer sites in over 100 countries and nearly 9,000 employees worldwide. From data scientists to sales and operations experts, we’re hiring to support your growth and ours.

GreenLight Your Career.

CDK Data Services, Inc. is the automotive industries engine for automotive data. We collect, standardize, cleanse, enhance and serve data for Auto, Heavy Truck, and Agricultural OEM's (Original Equipment Manufacturers), dealers, parts suppliers and the leading web marketing portals. If you've looked at a car online, ordered a part or gotten a reminder to change your oil, chances are you've seen our work. No one has more experience managing automotive retail data. We process data for nearly all of the dealerships in the U.S. and Canada. That's 23,000 dealerships and over 140,000 data connections every day. The modern retail automotive industry relies on our data collection, cleansing and enhancement. Without CDK Data Services, there would be no automotive web portals, no vehicle histories, no customer relationship management, and no parts locators. We fuel business solutions for the entire industry. 

Job Description

CDK Data Services has an immediate opening available for a Sales Engineer. This position provides technical knowledge of automotive data solutions to clients and prospects by:

  • Delivering clear, dynamic technical sales presentations and product demonstrations
  • Collaborating with both Product Marketing and Client Services to ensure technical knowledge of solutions and services is up-to-date
  • Working with the Project Management Office to define solution requirements, perform solution reviews, gather resource estimates for proposals, and provide opportunity status updates
  • Preparing and providing documentation for Statements of Work (SOW) or other technical documentation needed for proposals as requested
  • Serving as the primary point of contact for all technical questions during the sales cycle
  • Assisting in market analysis/research for emerging market opportunities as well as Sales, Marketing, R&D and other internal departments in formulating and/or executing strategies, plans and programs to target markets

Qualifications

What You Bring to the Table:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience preferred
  • Automotive industry experience is strongly preferred, DMS (Dealer Management Systems) experience a absolute plus
  • Sales Engineering experience presenting technical SAAS solutions to clients and prospects strongly preferred
  • Strong interpersonal skills, which includes the ability to successfully interact with a variety of departments and management levels
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop detailed presentations, proposals, and/or analysis/reports
  • Strong presentation and analytical skills required
  • Experience responding to Requests for Proposals (RFP's) strongly preferred
  • Accuracy of work and strong attention to detail as well as a strong track record of timely deliverables required
  • Ability to travel 25% required

CDK Global knows you have passions outside of work. You have family, friends, sporting events, and lots of things going on. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to not only take care of you but your family as well. All of our benefits are effective the first day of employment including 401K matching, paid time off to re-energize, donate your time to volunteer in your community, and tuition reimbursement, just to name a few.

Additional Information

We will support your career growth with initial and on-going training, advanced tools and an attractive compensation package designed to reward you for your initiative. 

Our associates have a strong work ethic and results-orientation, believe in and support our core values, and reflect the diverse business environments in which we operate.  We will offer our associates challenges, opportunities, and advancement in an informal, fast-paced, non-bureaucratic environment that is sensitive to work-family and flexible-schedule issues.  We will provide technologies that enable our associates to meet our clients' ever-changing product needs and preferences. 

We want each associate to feel like an integral part of a team that is making a discernible positive contribution to CDK's success.  Our goal is to be the clear employer of choice for our current and future associates. 


                     CDK Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer; Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
                                  We believe that diversity in all aspects of business leads to strength.