At Clarendon Specialty Fasteners, we don’t just supply fasteners, we enable innovation. As a leading value-add distributor of specialty fastener solutions, we serve industries that shape the future, including Aerospace, Space, Motorsport, Defence, & Industrial Markets.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Make a visible impact in a high-performance team.
- Collaborative Culture: Work with passionate experts in a supportive, agile environment.
- Career Growth: Access technical training, mentorship, and clear development paths.
- Innovation-Driven: Be part of a company that values creativity and continuous improvement.
- Shared Success: We win together, across teams, locations, and challenges.
Our Values:
Agility. Collaboration. Empathy.
Apply now and be part of a dynamic, fast-paced team playing a critical role in our success.
Position:
Leading an established team, the key objectives are to proactively develop & maximise profitable growth in line with the divisional strategy and budgetary targets, through key account focus, including supporting technical issues throughout these territories with product and application knowledge. In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities in key and non-key customers as well as generating new product pipelines.
The role will be office based at our sales office in Turin, Italy and will involve some travel to visit clients and other Clarendon business units.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- To be proactive in business development, customer visits & support technical issues whilst managing priorities in the business and liaising with the team daily.
- Oversee and support all aspects of business development in Europe and ensure regular contact is made to the customer base, both desk based and or external.
- Devise visit strategy for strategic accounts incorporating support from internal sales coordinators to ensure customer relations and service is at the forefront of our goals.
- To support internally & externally with technical issues, quotes and general queries.
- Monitor market/territory performance in terms of orders and sales.
- During customer meetings discuss service, products, new product promotion, design-in activity, competition, opportunities for growth etc with all relevant functions and decision makers within the customer account and influence them to purchase &/or specify Clarendon product.
- Submit weekly Sales Visit Reports (SVR’s) through CRM system accurately and assigning actions to those individuals / departments specific to each task.
- Manage account database via Sales Notes and ensure contacts, market, projects and competition sections are up to date.
- Follow up on quotations for customer accounts and liaise with the Sales Office.
- Provide input as required to complete divisional fiscal year sales forecasts and re-forecasts.
- Attend and fully contribute to regular Sales Meetings.
- Attend relevant exhibitions.
- Add value as a team member in product innovation and development initiatives.
- Coordinate product demonstrations and customer presentations.
- Report on market news relevant to our business.
- Initiate, support and lead marketing activities with ownership for market specific flyers, brochures and technical application information as well as any supporting web and exhibition work.
Requirements:
- Sound technical & engineering comprehension of fasteners
- Customer focused and business development strategic approach
- Commercial acumen and all round CRM knowledge
- High energy, able to travel and be highly functional whilst being out of office environment
- Highly self-motivated
- Ability to work under their own initiatives
- Sales experience in aerospace fasteners
- High level of competence with Microsoft office (Excel, Power point, Word) especially Excel
- Languages: knowledge of German or French would be not required but a valued extra
Other information:
Benefits:
- 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Bonus Scheme
- Pension Scheme
- One day working from home after probation
- Free Parking
- Regular Social & Sporting Events
- DIGICARE App – Access to digital health and wellbeing support
- Regular lunches and treats for hitting targets
- Branded clothing
- Free tea, coffee, soft drinks, fruit, and Huel
- Games room for breaks and downtime