An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Development/Sales Engineer to join our clients UK Sales team based in Gainsborough who are a World leading supplier of Filling, Sealing and Packing solutions for the food industry.
Business Development/Sales Engineer Benefits
- Salary: Basic of 40k to 42k plus commission
- Location: Gainsborough - office based unless out on client meetings
- Working hours: 39 Hours a week, Monday - Friday between 08.00 - 16.30
- Contract: Permanent
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme
- Company Car
- Company Electronics
Business Development/Sales Engineer Duties
- You will be responsible for dealing with existing client base and developing new leads.
- Identify and generate new accounts and potential new market areas which will result in increased sales growth.
- Customer contact - Taking enquiries and raising of cost schedules and quotations.
- Attending sales visits nationally and internationally.
- Contacting and targeting new customers with a view to gaining new market areas.
- Project manage all intercompany sales enquiries of UK manufactured products.
- Raising of order acknowledgements and works orders.
- Responsible for liaising with accounts department for raising of all invoices.
- Point of contact for sister Companies / Sales offices including North America.
- Organisation of Exhibitions and Trade Shows as required.
- Point of contact for Agents / Distributors.
- Assist with spare parts orders / maintenance agreements.
Business Development/Sales Engineer Criteria
- High achiever with a track record of achieving rapid and sustainable business growth.
- Customer focused with the ability to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.
- The ability to quickly assimilate and retain information (especially technical and product based)
- Proven, long term relationship building skills.
- Ability to liaise and work with different teams within the office to progress accounts and customer requests
- Confident and dynamic with the ability to communicate and negotiate effectively at all levels.
- Preferred industry backgrounds Industry experience in labelling and/or packaging
- Computer literate, especially in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook and experience of working with CRM systems would be a bonus
- Full, clean driving licence
- Self-motivated and results-driven.
- Enjoy working in a team environment.
- Willingness to travel overseas.