Sales Manager

Sales Manager / Permanent/ Watton - salary up to 45k per annum

Position 1 Recruitment are partnering with a well-established manufacturing and engineering company in Watton that is seeking a skilled Sales Manager to join their engineering team.

Sales Manager will beworking closely with the Proposals Manager, Sales team, Engineering teams and Project management, you will be responsible for ensuring our clients are serviced with accurately costed and technically valid quotations whilst developing relationships with new and existing customers.

Duties & Responsibilities of Sales Manager:

• Develop the regions of responsibility and key accounts to achieve improved sales. Be this through areas of growth, improved profit margins or targeted sales.
• Actively conduct business development activities within the allotted regions or product lines to expand business base through diversification of markets.
• Identifying areas of development to engage the marketing and research and development teams.
• Work with the Proposals Manager and other Stakeholders to prepare the annual sales budgets and continually update the CRM system with all relevant data.
• Ensure that the structure of proposals is in accordance with company policies and the correct supporting information is provided with bids.
• Ensuring proposals and technical and commercial clarifications are submitted on time and are fully qualified.
• Overall management of contract commercial negotiations with clients for new contracts and contract variations.
• Identification, management and recommendation of Agents and maintaining/generating agreements. Review and comment on terms and conditions of contract and assisting with the vendor registration program.
• Contributing to sales meetings with updates and forecasts
• Attendance of client clarification meetings, internal handover meetings, client kick off meetings and other customer related interfaces as required via Teams or face to face. Domestic or international travel may be required.

The successful candidate will have a proven experience in similar role, ideally within Oil and Gas and Petrochemical sector. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent planning and organizational abilities. Expert sales and negotiation skills. Strong analytical thinking. Commercial awareness, with a focus on costing and margin management.

A full driving license and the ability to travel isneeded