Junior Sales Engineer

ATA Recruitment; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

ATA Recruitment is working with a growing Leicestershire business in Leicester to recruit a Junior Sales Engineer. The role starts as internal sales, with direct mentoring from the Managing Director to learn proposals and quotations for projects.

As you gain expertise you will progress toward an external sales engineer role, carrying out business development and winning projects for the company. Open to graduates keen on a sales career in engineering.

Qualifications

• Ability to put together well written proposals.
• Desire to carve out a career in sales in the engineering sector.
• Commercial nous with the ability to cost equipment.
• Team player who fits into a close-knit team.
• Ability to work at speed with tight deadlines on proposals.
• Local to Leicester; office-based role.

Responsibilities

• Produce proposals for enquiries and projects ranging from 5K to 500K.
• Size equipment and estimate costs for projects (filters, fans, motors).
• Determine ducting runs and associated costs for systems.
• Liaise with customers from shop floor to managing director level.
• Create final written proposals detailing equipment and costs.

Skills

Proposal writing

Costing

Team player

Speed with deadlines

Leicester local

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Junior Sales Engineer

Leicester

£28,000 - 35,000

We are working with a growing Leicestershire business who can offer some an exciting career progression to a Sales Engineer's role. The business are looking to hire someone initially as an internal sales engineer who with direct mentoring from the companies Managing Director will learn how to produce proposals and quotations for the projects the company deliver.

As you gain expertise with the company and their sales processes you can then emerge in time into a full external sales engineer carrying out business development activities winning projects for the company.

The business are happy to consider junior sales engineers or engineering graduates who are keen to carve out a career in sales.

The Role

The Junior Sales Engineer will support the external sales engineer by producing proposals documents for enquiries he is bringing in. You will be producing proposals for systems which can range from 5K up to 500K and could be working on several proposals required at speed, the business aims to provide proposals within 72 hours of receiving enquiry.

Your key responsibilities will involve:

• Sizing equipment needed for project including filter, fans and motors.
• Establishing proposed costing for the equipment.
• Working out the ducting runs required for the system and proposed costs.
• Liaising with customers regards proposals being produced from shop floor right up to MD level.
• You will be producing proposals for projects that can range from 5K up to 500K.
• Creating final written proposal for customers detailing the equipment required and proposed costs.

The Candidate

For this Junior Sales Engineer role, we are looking for a candidate with:

• The ability to put together well written proposals.
• A desire to carve out a career in sales in the engineering sector
• A commercial nous with the ability to cost equipment.
• A team player who can fit well into a close-knit team
• Someone who can work well at speed with tight deadlines on proposals required.
• Someone local to the Leicester area with the role being office based.

The Benefits

• Supporting a highly experienced sales engineer in the field with required proposals.
• Chance to join a growing business with an ambitious owner.
• The opportunity to work for a company with over 50 years expertise in their sector.
• A client with an immediate need who is ready to hire someone straight away.
• Being mentored directly by the Managing Director who has built several businesses.

The Company

The company have a rich history dating back over half a century in their sector fabricating bespoke engineering systems for manufacturing companies. Now under new ownership the company has ambitious plans to grow their market share further.

ATA Recruitment are working with this customer on an exclusive basis.