Sales Application Engineer Position Overview
My client are a manufacturer of inspection equipment, used to identify contaminants and product defects in the food and pharmaceutical industries. They are currently looking for an experienced Sales Application Engineer to join the busy team.
Responsibilities include:
- You will primarily assess applications to gather essential information pre-sale, to support the sales team in obtaining the correct product specification for equipment proposals
- You will assess incoming orders to ensure accuracy of commercial details and technical requirements
- You will help to facilitate effective communication with customers, field sales team, distributors and internal functions
- You will calculate product costs and prepare proposals
- You will liaise with customers to achieve drawing approvals on complex orders
- You will be expected to highlight the need for design guide changes and provide input when required
- You will compile and retain a database of drawings for current and previous designs.
- You will need to produce appropriate documentation to enable pre-sales support, manufacture, assembly, test and post-sale support, and compliance with appropriate statutory and customer requirements.
- You will actively participate in the Technical Enquiry process and attend application meetings.
- You may need to conduct and assist with product testing to validate application details against order requirements
- You will on occasion, need to conduct customer visits in support of the field sales team when required
- You will be involved with general sales order processing where necessary
Sales Application Engineer Position Requirements
- Engineering qualification and or extensive experience within a similar technical role
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to prioritise own workload.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office at an advanced level and ideally experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365
- High attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills applied confidently at all levels in the organisation internally and externally, dealing directly with customer/distributor or agents.
- Hands on approach to getting tasks done with a desire to make a difference.
Sales Application Engineer Position Remuneration
- Competitive Salary circa £40,000
- Excellent Company Pension Scheme
- Discount Platform saving employees £000s per year.
- 25 Days Holiday per year + bank holidays
- 1 Paid Charity Volunteering Day per year
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Work Place Nursery Benefit
- Gym Discounts
- Phone Discounts
- Technology Savings
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Flu Jabs
- Death in Service Benefit
- Long Term Disability Benefit
- Enhanced Sick Leave
- Enhance Parental Leave
- Training & Development
- Great Company Culture
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