ROLE- Engineering Sales Manager
LOCATION- West Sussex
TERM- Permanent
SALARY- Competitive dependent on experience
My client works within the engineering sector and they are looking to take on a Sales Manager with an engineering background to work with their products, on a permanent basis, in the West Sussex area.
The Engineering Sales Manager will ideally have the following attributes:
- Previous experience working in a similar technical engineering Sales Manager / Sales Director role
- Sound technical knowledge, commercial skills and experience with relationship management
- Experience working in a similar technical engineering company
- Confident closing deals
- Flexible to travel overseas at short notice when required
- Someone who can work well with internal departments that are involved in the proposals process
- Enthusiasm and drive to do well
- Excellent administrative skills working with paperwork
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
- Be self-motivated and driven
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
The Engineering Sales Manager role will involve:
- Being a key member of the UK Sales team
- Focussing on securing sales with profit
- Improving overall market share
- Taking control of the sales process from start to finish
- Developing in this role as part of a company long term
- Travelling as and when needed to customer sites internationally
- Developing core business relationships
- Representing the company at exhibitions
- Being confident working with long tender processes – each is bespoke
- Project management and giving input to bid preparation
- Working with the Estimating team to ensure pricing is correct
- Negotiating commercial terms
- Reporting on the sales pipeline using the company CRM system
If you are interested in this position, please apply with an up to date CV as soon as possible, along with your availability and your salary expectation.