Sales Manager - Nuclear Decommissioning

Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for a sales manager with a background in
Nuclear Decommissioning to be engaged on a permanent basis (location flexible).

General Job Function:

The nuclear market is experiencing strong growth driven by the transition to clean energy technologies, and by Governmental policy supporting energy certainty and independence.
There are general trends to extending the operating life of the existing nuclear fleet and to optimize outages and maintenance windows as electricity prices are favorable. Our client has a large and deep portfolio of solutions to meet our customers challenges.

The Sales Manager is accountable for driving the sales process to identify customer needs and challenges with the assistance of the Account Team. Leading the capture team, you will work closely with our operational teams to shape a winning technical solution, delivery model and value proposition, prior to the RFQ being released. Working with the bid preparation teams, you will participate in creating winning proposals that you will manage through active participation in negotiations with the closing team ultimately ensuring the finalized of contracts.

In addition, you will work closely with the product line managers to proactively promote new solutions and to feed, with business intelligence, the Innovation process tied to our growth initiatives. This role will ensure the Customer Relationship Management Tool is properly maintained for his scope of activities: products/customers/opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities (in the order of priority):

• Responsible for meeting and exceeding product-based targets: OE, margin as sold, pipeline growth, win/loss ratio on pertinent scope of activities
• Lead opportunity development sales funnel process from identification through offer development and contract closure. Lead business development build agreement with local stakeholders
• Develop / maintain technical and sales related knowledge to support responsible product portfolio needs within assigned business segment and product portfolios. Responsible to support technical questions multiple layers deep while able to easily facilitate and guide interactions between the business segments and the customers during the sales process.
• Oversite of Capture strategy for opportunities including but not limited to identifying bundling opportunities, cross coordination of products to present customer-oriented solutions, and working with Product Management and Account Management to define target price and target costs
• Responsible for Negotiations with the client until final contract signature, ensuring proper teamwork and alignment with all relevant teammates including Account Managers, Product Management, Legal, finance, and supporting organisations.
• Facilitate negotiations with Consortium partner whenever relevant and alignment with all relevant teammates
• Responsible for the management of opportunities and data within the customer relationship management tool for associated opportunities.
• Lead LOA and offer processes within the business including presentation and obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders to ensure offering meets our target objectives and Customer needs.
• Build with Global accounts sales plans per customer / per product line
• Ensure quality inputs on pricing strategy and commercial elements of the LOA and offer processes within including presentation and obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders to ensure offering meets target objectives and Customer needs.

Education and Qualifications / Skills and Competencies:

Education Level (Degree, Area of Study) - Minimum Requirement:

Bachelors of Science

Years of Experience (if applicable):

>7 years of experience working at or with Nuclear Utilities. Preferred experience in Engineering and LTOs modifications, and/or with on-site nuclear plant experience in a utility position or customer facing role as a vendor or within operations.

Skills and Competencies:

• Dynamic self-starter with business development acumen
• Customer interfacing experience, preferably having held a commercial role
• Good communicator
• Well organised
• Close deals orientated
• Knowledge of customer operations or General knowledge of related Nuclear Plant Operations
• Knowledge of Nuclear Utility buying processes
• Knowledge of nuclear products and process is a strong plus
• Fluent English

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We would welcome the opportunity to discuss this role informally.

Why We're Different:

Westlakes Recruit are a people solutions business that understands the complexities of nuclear and the importance of our clients' mission critical objectives.

Smarter, faster, more agile - we have a laser focus on nuclear, with deep sectoral knowledge. We develop nuclear talent pools before you know you need them!

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