Sales Manager - Engineering

Farr Associates Recruitment limited; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A top recruitment agency is looking for a Sales Manager to join an engineering company in Leeds. The ideal candidate will have a proven sales development background in engineering and excellent customer service skills. Responsibilities include making outbound calls, building business opportunities, and managing customer quotes. This role offers a salary of £30,000 - £37,000 plus bonuses and incentives, with opportunities for professional development within the company.

Benefits

Bonus incentive

Company car

Phone

Laptop

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering sales development.
• Strong work ethic and a positive attitude required.
• Experience in customer service within an engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Make outbound development calls and visit client sites.
• Build new business opportunities with a sales database.
• Provide pricing for customer quotations and follow-up.
• Manage samples sent to customers for product review.
• Support field account managers with administrative tasks.
• Maintain a customer service focus as the first point of contact.

Skills

Articulate phone manner

Customer service

Engineering sales development

Strong work ethic

Positive attitude

Job description

Overview

Sales Manager - Engineering

£30,000 - £37,000 plus bonus incentive/car/phone/laptop

Location: Leeds

NEW VACANCY

Are you an ambitious individual looking for a new challenge in a successful engineering manufacturing environment?

Do you want to develop your account management skills in a company with a fantastic product industry experience?

It s a new position for someone to make their own and develop with the business.

My client is looking for an enthusiastic sales person with proven engineering or product sales and account management and soft business development skills to join their team.

What you get: On offer is a great salary of £30,000 - £37,000 with an excellent achievable bonus, plus company incentives. This role would suit someone with a strong customer service account management background with a customer lead sales ability both face to face field visits and on the telephone. Maybe you are looking for more of a client development role.

The role consists of outbound development calls and client site project visits beginning with lapsed clients to reconnect and introduce the business again.

You will then work through a sales and lead database to build some new business opportunities to visit new clients, assisting with any quotations and samples. You will receive a bonus on any successful sales with all customers contacted.

Pricing individual quotations for customers, following up on enquiries and quotations sent for new business. Managing samples sent to customers for review of products. The role could also support some hybrid working.

The role brings other internal support if needed within the customer service and quality teams.

The role is not a hard sell and is very much driven by customer service and relationship building.

So, you will need to be confident and positive as you will be the first person the clients will greet when they arrive on site.

You will be responsible for making outbound calls to prospective clients that have previously enquired about the company products. You will be working closely with the Sales Managers to refine your sales development industry skills. Building key relationships with exciting clients, updating with new ideas and other business areas they may not be aware of.

There are great routes for progression within this expanding company, and they’re looking for someone who wants to develop within the business.

There will also be elements of administration support for the field account managers.

In exchange, they will give you a great salary and encourage development with a superb engineering team and company.

Responsibilities

• Outbound development calls and client site project visits (starting with lapsed clients to reconnect).
• Build new business opportunities using a sales and lead database; visit new clients; assist with quotations and samples.
• Provide pricing for customer quotations; follow up on enquiries and quotations for new business.
• Manage samples sent to customers for product review; support hybrid working if applicable.
• Provide administration support for field account managers as needed.
• Maintain a customer service and relationship-building focus; act as the first point of contact for clients on site.

Qualifications

• An articulate, professional phone manner
• Great customer service ideally within an engineering environment
• Proven engineering sales development background
• A strong work ethic and a positive attitude

I have immediate interviews available and look forward to receiving your application, thank you for applying.

Lisa

FARR Associates

Recruitment Specialist.