Sales Manager

WR Engineering; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Technical Sales Engineer to drive sales of capital equipment across the UK. This role offers the chance to engage with clients through cold calls and face-to-face meetings, focusing on sectors such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and packaging. With a competitive salary and uncapped earnings potential, this position is perfect for someone with a passion for sales and a technical background. Join a dynamic team and contribute to significant growth while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package, including a car allowance and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Car allowance

Laptop and phone

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience selling capital equipment like packaging machinery.
• Strong technical skills and a proactive sales approach.

Responsibilities

• Implement sales strategies for new and existing products.
• Conduct market analysis and prepare sales forecasts.
• Visit customer sites to build relationships.

Skills

Sales Experience

Technical Skills

Cold Calling

Client Relationship Management

Job description

Sales Manager / Sales Engineer / Business Development Manager / Field Sales / Technical Sales

Technical Sales Engineer required to join a leading supplier of capital equipment, covering the whole of the UK. We are seeking someone with a pre-active approach to sales who is happy to do cold-calling as well as face-to-face meetings with clients to build their client base.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual with experience selling machinery such as shrinkwrappers, overwrappers, checkweighers or similar capital equipment into the food & beverage, pharmaceutical, FMCG, packaging or similar industries and offers great financial incentives.

Benefits Package:

1. Base Salary £50,000-£60,000
2. Uncapped OTE £100,000+
3. Car allowance
4. Laptop and phone
5. 25 days holiday + bank holidays

The Role:

1. Implement sales strategies to sell new and existing products within the portfolio to new and existing customers.
2. Visiting customer sites
3. Continually conduct market analysis.
4. Prepare monthly, quarterly and yearly sales forecast.
5. Working in conjunction with UK Sales Team, you will prepare a business plan for future growth.

Requirements:

1. Previous sales experience selling capital equipment such as packaging machinery, checkweighers, x-ray equipment or similar.
2. Will have ideally sold into FMCG; Food & Beverage or Pharmaceutical.
3. A strong technical skill-set and a genuine interest in a sales career could compensate for lack of previous experience in a similar position.
4. Able to travel within the UK and overseas when required.

WR Engineering are the #1 recruitment partner for engineering, manufacturing & technical sales jobs. We recruit for permanent and contract jobs UK wide.

WR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.