Technical Sales Engineer

Confident Technical Sales Engineer required for large established manufacturing company based in Stourport

This exciting opportunity is looking for a key member of the sales team to build close relationships with customers in dealing with sales enquiries, producing accurate and competitive quotes.

Working with a new and existing customer base with commercial and technical support.

Main duties of the role will include:

* Processing customer enquiries, which will involve:

* Initial customer contact via telephone, email and face to face

* Managing and understanding and interpreting customer requirements

* Producing layouts and costed solutions to satisfy these requirements using CAD programs. AutoCAD is essential.

* Production of quotations/tenders in a timely, clear, detailed and accurate manner.

* Follow up quotations in a timely manner to secure profitable orders

* Maintain expert level of product knowledge and applications.

* Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product education to new and existing customers

* Ensuring orders are processed quickly and that clear and accurate information allowing for design and manufacturing is passed to the relevant department

* Ensuring that customers are kept informed of order (contract) status and that any issues are resolved quickly

* Maintaining accurate up-to-date records of enquiries, quotations, orders and customer activity via Sage CRM

* Pursue new business opportunities

* Occasional site and customer visits

* Supporting the Contracts, Engineering and Production departments

* Building relationships with customers and potential customers to understand their requirements.

The right candidate would ideally

* Hold relevant technical sales experience

* Have experience working with Autocad including 2D and 3D drawings

* Experience working within a busy manufacturing environment

* Maintaining accurate up-to-date records of enquiries, quotations, orders and customer activity via SageCRM

* Confident to pursue new business opportunities

* Happy to attend occasional site and customer visits

* Excellent communication skills

Hours Monday to Thursday 7.30m to 4pm, Friday 7.30am to 1pm

Salary £39,000