Technical Sales Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading supplier in machinery sales seeks a Technical Sales Engineer in Cambridge. This field-based role requires experience in selling machinery to the food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and FMCG industries. The position offers a competitive base salary of £50,000-£60,000 and uncapped on-target earnings of over £100,000. The candidate should have a strong technical background and be prepared to travel. The benefits package includes a car, laptop, phone allowance, and generous holiday leave.

Benefits

Base Salary £50,000-£60,000

Uncapped OTE £100,000+

Car, laptop and phone allowance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience selling machinery such as shrinkwrappers or checkweighers.
• Ability to travel within the UK and overseas when needed.

Responsibilities

• Implement sales strategies to sell products to customers.
• Visit customer sites to understand their needs.
• Conduct market analysis and prepare sales forecasts.

Skills

Sales experience in FMCG, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical

Technical skill-set

Market analysis

Customer relationship management

Job description

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

Due to continued growth, my client is recruiting a Technical Sales Engineer to join a leading supplier of capital equipment. 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. This will be a challenging field-based new business development role, but offers great financial incentives.

Previous experience may have been in a field-based sales role, or may have come in a customer-facing engineering environment. Previous job titles may have included Sales Manager, Sales Engineer, Business Development Manager, Account Manager, Applications Engineer or similar.

Benefits Package

• Base Salary £50,000-£60,000
• Uncapped OTE £100,000+
• Car, laptop and phone allowance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

The Role

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

Requirements

• Previous sales experience in FMCG, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Packaging machinery industry is highly advantageous.
• A strong technical skill-set and a genuine interest in a sales career could compensate for lack of previous experience in a similar position.
• Able to travel within UK and overseas when required.

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

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