Sales Application Specialist – Bakery

**Description** This position serves as the subject matter expert in bakery processing equipment and applications, offering expert guidance to Sales, Application Engineering, Market Development Management, and Product Marketing Management prior to product delivery. By providing comprehensive application and technical expertise across designated equipment platforms, this position enhances stakeholder confidence and contributes to superior commercial outcomes. Time Utilization: This position will travel up to 75% of the time, with some international travel. Normal business hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm. Schedule needs to be flexible to accommodate internal and external customer schedules. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: * Develop and maintain comprehensive application and technical expertise in the bakery processing equipment and applications to facilitate structured assessments to thoroughly understand customer requirements, constraints, utilities, integration points, and performance expectations. Proactively identify potential technical risks, limitations, and assumptions in early project stages. * Frequently travel with the Sales organization and assist by providing expert application expertise, technical guidance, and help facilitate customer opportunity development. * Partner with sales to ensure accurate project scoping, technically sound configurations, and credible performance expectations by translating customer requirements into validated, fit\-for\-purpose equipment solutions. Reduce technical risk, minimize re\-quotes, and accelerate opportunity progression through disciplined technical discovery, validation, and collaboration across Sales, Applications, Engineering, and Product teams. * Collaborate with Sales and Application Engineering to translate customer needs into accurate machine configurations, options, and integration parameters. * Assist Sales Management with the onboarding process and ongoing development of Sales Managers, f