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 plus annual bonus, Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 1pm and excellent pension and benefits 

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
• Experience and understanding of sales techniques and negotiating is essential along with good commercial awareness
• Costing and pricing knowledge and experience in engineering products
• Muat have excellent Microsoft Office skills and CRM skills
• 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