Technical Sales Director
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Full Job Description
Our client, an exciting high technology engineering and
manufacturing business near Sheffield, seek to appoint a Technical
Sales Director. Reporting to the Managing Director the appointed
Technical Sales Director will identify new business opportunities with
existing and prospective customers and convert them into sales to meet
the company targets for growth and profitability. On offer is an
excellent base salary for this largely internal role and long term,
stable employment for a market leading engineering business with a
great R&D team. There's lots of great products that customers do want
to buy and are enquiring about!
A large part of your role will
be fielding incoming enquiries and responding to inbound contact and
you will need excellent English language and communication skills for
initial exploratory conversations and writing the bids, tenders and
proposals that come from those. As well as this there will
occasionally be opportunities for you to generate further revenue from
outbound marketing activity. You will need to be able to be able to
sift good from bad, quickly, and hone the company in on the profitable
business that needs to be won rather than giving equal priority to
every enquiry.
Technical Sales Director - Role and
Responsibilities - Sales Engineer / Business Development Manager / BDM
/ Account Manager / Electronics / Engineering / Automotive
*
Establish and maintain relationships with designated existing and
prospective customers
* Communicate new product propositions to
existing and prospective customers
* Plan, prepare and deliver
responses (inclusive of presentations) to existing and prospective
customers
* Maintain Customer Relationship Management database
accurately and in a timely manner and produce a monthly sales progress
report to senior management team
* Promote and develop corporate
image and reputation and contribute to overall business development
plan
* Maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions
and provide the senior management team with market activity
feedback
Technical Sales Director - Skills and Abilities -
Sales Engineer / Business Development Manager / BDM / Account Manager
/ Electronics / Engineering / Automotive
* Degree qualified (or
equivalent) preferred but not essential
* Experience writing bids /
tenders and proposals for advanced technology and complex engineered
systems
* Proven track record in a technical sales role within an
engineering market sector. Often you'll liaise directly with other
engineers (and purchasing and leadership posts too)
* Excellent
proposal presentation skills
* Confident working in an autonomous
role (you'll get supported but will be relied on to be the
self-starter the team needs)
* Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills to interact with customers and colleagues at all
levels
Technical Sales Director, Engineering, New Business,
Technical Sales Engineer, Business Development Manager, Electronics,
Automotive
This is an excellent role offering generous
compensation for the right person. If you're right for this role then
you'll recognise it's an opportunity not to be missed!
Technical Sales Director
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