Sales Engineer

TRS (Technical Recruitment Solutions); West of England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commission

Company car

Benefits

Job summary

TRS (Technical Recruitment Solutions) are seeking a technically strong Sales Engineer to develop into a field sales role within the food processing sector in the UK. The role focuses on understanding customer operations and building valuable relationships with engineering and procurement teams.

Applicants may come from Sales Engineer, Applications Engineer or related technical roles in food processing, refrigeration, or wider food manufacturing, and should be ambitious with a commercial mindset

Qualifications

• Tech/engineering background in food processing or related sector.
• Strong communication and customer relationship skills.
• Ability to identify opportunities and develop commercially valuable relationships.

Responsibilities

• Visiting food manufacturing and processing sites.
• Build relationships with Engineering, Operations and Procurement teams.
• Understand customer processes, challenges and future requirements.
• Identify opportunities for equipment, projects and services.
• Develop existing customer relationships and generate new business.
• Manage opportunities through the sales process and develop territory plans.

Skills

Technical understanding

Customer facing

Commercial awareness

Territory development

Job description

Technical Sales Engineer – Food Processing

South / South West

£40,000 – £50,000 DOE + Commission + Company Car

Are you technically experienced within food processing and looking for an opportunity to develop your career commercially?

A specialist engineering business supplying major UK food manufacturers is expanding its sales team and is open to speaking with technically strong people who have the personality, ambition and commercial instinct to develop into a successful field sales role.

You don't necessarily need to be the finished salesperson.

You could currently be working as a Sales Engineer, Applications Engineer, Project Engineer, Service Engineer, Refrigeration Engineer or Technical Account Manager within the food processing, refrigeration, freezing or wider food manufacturing sector.

The Opportunity

You'll work with existing and prospective food manufacturing customers, understanding their operations, identifying opportunities and developing commercially valuable relationships.

You'll receive support from an experienced management team while being given the freedom to develop your own customer base and territory.

Responsibilities will include:

• Visiting food manufacturing and processing sites
• Building relationships with Engineering, Operations and Procurement teams
• Understanding customer processes, challenges and future requirements
• Identifying opportunities for equipment, projects and services
• Developing existing customer relationships
• Generating and developing new business
• Managing opportunities through the sales process
• Working with management to develop territory and account plans

The Person

Technical understanding and attitude are more important than having spent ten years in sales.

We're looking for someone who:

• Understands food manufacturing or processing environments
• Has a technical/engineering background
• Is comfortable dealing directly with customers
• Can build credible relationships with engineers and operational teams
• Has commercial awareness and can recognise an opportunity
• Is ambitious, proactive and prepared to create their own success
• Wants to develop their career further into technical sales

This is an opportunity to join at the beginning of a new commercial strategy rather than stepping into a rigid, established sales structure.

If you're technically strong, good with customers and have always felt you could make the move into a more commercially focused position, we'd particularly like to hear from you.

Package: £40,000 – £50,000 DOE + commission + company car + benefits