Sales Manager / Sales Engineer - South UK
Due to continued growth, my client is recruiting a Technical Sales Engineer to join a leading supplier of capital equipment. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual with experience selling machinery such as shrinkwrappers, overwrappers, checkweighers or similar capital equipment into the food & beverage, pharmaceutical, FMCG, packaging or similar industries. This will be a challenging field-based new business development role, but offers great financial incentives.
Previous experience may have been in a field-based sales role, or may have come in a customer-facing engineering environment. Previous job titles may have included Sales Manager, Sales Engineer, Business Development Manager, Account Manager, Applications Engineer or similar.
Benefits Package:
- Base Salary 50,000-60,000
- Uncapped OTE 100,000+
- Car, laptop and phone allowance
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
The Role:
- Implement sales strategies to sell new and existing products within the portfolio to new and existing customers.
- Visiting customer sites
- Continually conduct market analysis.
- Prepare monthly, Quarterly and yearly sales forecast.
- Working in conjunction with UK Sales Team, you will prepare a business plan for future growth.
Requirements:
- Previous sales experience in FMCG, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Packaging machinery industry is highly advantageous
- A strong technical skill-set and a genuine interest in a sales career could compensate for lack of previous experience in a similar position
- Able to travel within UK and overseas when required
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