Sales Engineer
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