Sales Engineer

AutomationSR; Sheffield; Remote; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car or Allowance

Job summary

AutomationSR is seeking an Account Manager to drive sales across the East Midlands from a home-based base, visiting clients four days a week. You will manage a 70-account portfolio with ~£2.5M annual spend and position technically beneficial automation solutions to a mix of SMEs and blue-chip customers.

The role requires a proactive salesperson with an appetite for engineering, driving licence, and the ability to develop strategic relationships while following up marketing leads.

Qualifications

• Must have driving licence.
• Experience in creating new business.
• Genuine interest in engineering; training available for technical aspects.

Responsibilities

• Sell to a wide range of customers from SMEs to blue-chip in automation and control.
• Manage and grow sales within a territory with a base of ~70 accounts and ~£2.5M spend.
• Set strategy and leverage resources to ensure excellent customer service.
• Identify new opportunities via marketing leads and networking in your territory.
• Based from home with visits to customers about 4 days per week.

Skills

New business development

Engineering interest

Control and Automation knowledge

Job description

About the Company

The company is part of a business with global market leadership (44,500 people, an annual turnover of 21.6 billion euros) in B-to-B distribution of electrical products, solutions and related services.

You’ll be joining a growing organisation in the UK of over 250 associates at one of the UK's leading distributors of industrial automation and control products.

About the Role

Account Manager £46k + £8k OTE + Car or Allowance East Midlands

An opportunity has arisen for a talented Account Manager in the East Midlands interested in technology and able to position commercially attractive and technically beneficial solutions to existing and new customers in the automation and control sector.

You would be selling into a wide range of customers from small to medium enterprises up to blue chip companies.

You would be responsible for managing and developing sales within a territory with an existing customer base of around 70 accounts together spending around £2.5M.

As an Account Manager, you would decide the strategy and use the best resource to ensure great customer service.

You will also find new opportunities by following up marketing leads and using your own networking skills and knowledge of your territory.

Based from home, you should be planning on visiting customers 4 days a week.

Responsibilities

• You would be selling into a wide range of customers from small to medium enterprises up to blue chip companies.
• You would be responsible for managing and developing sales within a territory with an existing customer base of around 70 accounts together spending around £2.5M.
• As an Account Manager, you would decide the strategy and use the best resource to ensure great customer service.
• You will also find new opportunities by following up marketing leads and using your own networking skills and knowledge of your territory.
• Based from home, you should be planning on visiting customers 4 days a week.

Qualifications

Driving licence

Required Skills

• It would be advantageous to have knowledge of Control and Automation, or other technical solutions gained within a sales environment however training will be given.
• You must be able to demonstrate a history of new business development.
• Have a general interest in engineering

Preferred Skills

• It would be advantageous to have knowledge of Control and Automation, or other technical solutions gained within a sales environment however training will be given.

Pay range and compensation package

£46k + £8k OTE + Car or Allowance