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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 with hands on technical / proposals experience
- 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
- 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
