Account Manager Other - John Crane - Manchester

Smiths Group plc; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Smiths Group plc is seeking an Account Manager for the North West, responsible for driving growth and expanding market presence. This remote position requires building client relationships and executing growth plans while ensuring compliance and safety standards.

The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and experience in an engineering environment. The role involves customer engagement with regular travel to sites, promoting products, and maintaining effective service delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills both written and spoken.
• Experience working within an Engineering business.
• Able to manage company equipment effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive profitable growth within assigned territory.
• Identify and develop new customer accounts.
• Ensure service delivery requirements are achieved.
• Promote and sell John Crane products.

Skills

Experience working within an Engineering business

Strong communication skills

Strong time management

Able to financially manage including planning and budgeting

Job description

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission‑critical flow control solutions for the energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better‑connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Account Manager covering North West reporting to the Senior Regional Sales Manager. As an Account Manager you will drive profitable growth within your assigned territory by converting enquiries into orders and expanding John Crane’s market presence. This role involves identifying and developing new customer accounts, maintaining strong relationships, promoting our products with technical expertise, and ensuring excellent service delivery. The successful candidate will execute territory growth plans, collaborate closely with engineering and tender teams, manage sales reporting, and uphold high standards of health, safety, and compliance.

This role is based remote working Monday to Friday normal office hours with regular travel to customer sites.

John Crane is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to crafting an inclusive environment for all employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

(not limited to)

• Develop, gain approval and execute growth plan for allocated territory, ensuring inclusion of key John Crane products and services initiatives, which support achievement of Company business objectives
• Identify, secure and develop new customer accounts that increase John Crane market penetration
• Sustain existing customer accounts and relationships, ensuring service delivery requirements are achieved
• Promote and sell John Crane Products in accordance with the company policy, pricing guidelines and regulations.
• Present the product range and its technical attributes/benefits for customers and maintain the relationship
• Support and coordinate customer enquiries, quote preparation for non‑pricelist products and work with Application Engineering
• Actively involve in the delivery of goods, invoicing and collections on payment from the customers
• Prepare thorough monthly reports to communicate progress of sales plan in line with business needs
• Act as a role model for Health, Safety and Environmental issues, actively participating in the development of safety culture and behaviours, including reporting all hazardous and unsafe acts
• Update sales funnel opportunities in C4C tool with accurate information based on quote follow‑ups and customer feedback
• Create customer visit reports which provide clear customer information and order potential
• Communicate frequently with the tendering and engineering teams to support delivery of quality tenders
• Conduct Lost Bid Analysis and propose actions to increase tender/order hit rate
• Act as a role‑model for compliance, ensuring appropriate processes and controls are in place and followed to meet the highest ethical standards and to adhere to Company regulations
• All other duties as relevant to the Sales function

Qualifications

• Experience working within an Engineering business
• Strong communication skills both written and spoken
• Ensure all company equipment is kept in good condition and report faults or damage to the Sales Manager
• Strong time management
• Able to financial manage including planning and budgeting

Benefits

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.