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Sales Engineer

Obscurant Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted 7 days ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Poole, Dorset BH15 3TE, England

Salary

£35,000 - £42,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • This hybrid Sales Engineer role requires candidates to commute to Poole and hold a full UK driving licence.
  • The basic salary for the position is £44,000, with working hours from Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 1pm, along with excellent pension and benefits.
  • Candidates must have a Mechanical or Electro-Mechanical Engineering background and at least 3 years of relevant experience in assembly and manufacturing processes.
  • The role involves providing technical support, generating quotations, and ensuring customer satisfaction while demonstrating strong sales techniques and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience using a CRM system.

This is a hybrid working role - candidates must be able to commute to Poole and hold a full UK driving licence

Basic salary £44,000 - Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 1pm and excellent pension and benefits

As a Sales Engineer, you will be joining a global engineering business where you can progress your career and receive additional product training.

As a Sales Engineer, you will have a Mechanical or Electro-Mechanical Engineering background with extensive knowledge of assembly and manufacturing processes and estimating skills and able demonstrate a high level of commercial awareness and customer focus to generate quotations and proposals.

As a Sales Engineer, you will provide technical support to both internal and external customers and consult directly with customers, evaluate enquiries, and provide a suitable technical and commercial solution. A good understanding of sales techniques and negotiating is essential along with costing and pricing knowledge and experience engineering products.

Candidate

  • Excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and highly confident
  • Able to attend client visits, driving licence is essential
  • Must have excellent Microsoft Office Skills and used a CRM System
  • Highly motivated with excellent communication skills, written and spoken
  • Ability to form strong relationships with customers and stakeholders

Duties

  • You will consult directly with customers to evaluate technical enquiries and provide the most suitable technical and commercial solution displaying excellent communication skills.
  • Follow up high value quotations and convert into orders, maintaining details on the customer relationship management system.
  • Prepare quotations and negotiation, costing and margin analysis
  • Convert customer technical enquires and transpose them to valve solutions fit for purpose.
  • Liaise and support the customer service team to process enquiries, quotations, customer purchase orders
  • Ensure compliance with the correct and relevant export control legislation
  • Visit, liaise and support customers and external sales personnel to ensure that customer expectations are understood, and requirements are met
  • Using Excel, you will calculate product costs using a combination of estimates and verified manufacturing costs.
  • Assist product marketing in highlighting/identifying potential new product opportunities.
  • Develop and work with a wide-ranging external network to enhance professional and technical knowledge.
  • Attend sales exhibitions as required which may involve international travel

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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.