Senior Advance Application/system Sales Engineer

Honeywell Honeywell · Industrial · Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Senior sales engineer for Honeywell's Connected Industrial Solutions portfolio, focusing on process automation, AI/analytics, and digital transformation in industries like Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals. The role involves opportunity development, consulting engagements, building business cases, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive software growth and customer outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own regional opportunity pipeline development and management for the Connected Industrial Solutions portfolio in Southeast Asia, including tracking of key business metrics and quarterly business reviews.
  2. Drive incremental and recurring software growth — new logos, white space in installed base, DCS migration pull‑through, and SaaS / subscription expansion.
  3. Build and execute account‑level digital roadmaps with Account Management, sequencing quick wins (90–180 day value) with multi‑year transformation programs.
  4. Lead consulting engagements — needs discovery, value workshops, benchmarking, master planning, opportunity assessments and proof‑of‑value design — to surface and qualify solution opportunities.
  5. Establish trusted relationships with Technical Services, Process Engineering, Operations, IT/OT, and Planning & Scheduling functions, up to senior operations and C‑level leadership at strategic accounts.

Skills

Required

  • Process industries consulting experience
  • Solution consulting
  • Digital transformation
  • Operational excellence programs
  • Software sales
  • Consulting
  • Domain knowledge in Refining, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Power, or Mining & Metals
  • Industrial business applications (process historian, production accounting, APM, alarm management, simulation, APC, OTS)
  • Understanding of OT + IT environments (DCS, historians, APC, MES, AI/ML, operations management, cloud/edge platforms, industrial cybersecurity)
  • Customer workshop leadership (discovery, value mapping, master planning, executive read-outs)
  • Translating business problems into digital solutions and quantified business cases
  • Executive-level communication
  • Regional sales experience (Asia Pacific)
  • Customer engagement

Nice to have

  • Applied AI in process industries (hybrid models, AI-driven sensors, predictive/prescriptive APM, generative AI, agentic AI)
  • Digital solutions for decarbonization, energy efficiency, emissions reduction, hydrogen, biofuels, circular economy
  • Crafting positioning stories and customer-specific narratives with quantified outcomes
  • Engaging C-level contacts to articulate strategic vision

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of progressive software sales and/or consulting experience
  • Deep domain knowledge in at least one core vertical
  • Demonstrated experience enabling digitalization through industrial business applications
  • Strong understanding of OT + IT environments
  • Ability to lead customer workshops from Day 1
  • Proven ability to translate business problems into scalable digital solutions and quantified business cases
  • Executive-level communication skills
  • Proven experience operating in regional, multi-cultural customer environments across Asia Pacific