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Internal Sales Engineer

Shepherd Stubbs Recruitment
Posted 7 hours ago, valid for 2 days
Location

Bedford, Bedfordshire MK42 7FJ, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Internal Sales Engineer position in Kempston offers a permanent role with a salary range of £25,000 to £30,000 depending on experience.
  • Candidates are expected to have experience in a similar role, ideally within the manufacturing or HVAC sectors.
  • The working hours are from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Fridays, promoting a good work-life balance.
  • Additional benefits include 20 days of holiday, increasing with service, a 5% employer pension contribution, and life assurance cover after probation.
  • The role involves building customer relationships, responding to technical sales inquiries, and providing pre-sales technical expertise.

Internal Sales Engineer

Kempston, Permanent

£25,000 - £30,000 (DOE)

  • Work Life Balance Working hours 8.00 am to 16.30 Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 12.00pm Friday
  • 20 days holiday increasing each year with continuous service.
  • 5% Employer pension contribution once enrolled.
  • Life Assurance Cover after completion of probation - 3 x gross annual salary. Discretionary annual bonus scheme - 3% of total company profit equally divided between all employees.

Working closely with the Sales Director you will build close relationships with customers and assist in securing new clients. This role will involve responding to technical sales enquiries, producing accurate and competitive quotes plus sourcing solutions to meet their needs.

Key Attributes

  • Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously, whilst maintaining high level of accuracy.
  • Self-motivating and a degree of commercial awareness.
  • Digitally savvy - creative with new solutions & ideas.
  • Strong sales background ideally within manufacturing / HVAC.
  • Tenacity, enthusiasm and determination.
  • Outstanding communication skills both written & verbal.

Experience within a similar role and an advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential. A strong disposition and professional telephone manner together with the ability to demonstrate excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills are essential.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and interpret new and existing customer requirements
  • Offer customers a product or service that best satisfies their technical specification, quality, price and delivery needs.
  • Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product education to customers.
  • Build and promote long-lasting customer relationships
  • Calculate accurate and competitive sales quotations and prepare tenders, proposals, designs and technical documents to meet customer deadlines. (This will involve looking at technical drawings and talking to engineers/project managers. Full training will be given)
  • Follow up quotations in a timely manner to secure profitable orders.
  • Offer after-sales service and support to develop and grow long-term relationships Solve customer problems
  • Contribute to our First-Class customer experience.
  • Receive and accurately log customer sales enquiries for your product onto our customer database.
  • Enter all sales orders onto Sage and raise relevant paperwork for.

Working for a small SME you will be required to work collaboratively and flexibly to meet the overall needs of the business, as and when required.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.