UK Sales Manager

Overview of Job Role:
Reporting directly to the Director of Sales, you will be responsible for the management of existing business accounts, developing new business accounts and the necessary customer services associated with sales order processing activities.

Job description:

• Working within the sales team you will have responsibility for the planning, managing and interaction with both existing and new customer accounts within the marketplace.
• Undertake the necessary research and market intelligence to ensure opportunities are generated, promoted and converted.
• Liaison with the company’s marketing activities to ensure the efforts are maximized within the marketplace.
• Assist in the production of technical quotations associated with supply only proposals to offering a full technically compliant bid encompassing all disciplines associated with a turnkey contract.
• Visiting customers on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as per your personally developed call register to assess customer requirements and possible short, medium and long-term opportunities.
• Demonstrate the technical capability and advantages of the solutions and service offered to potential customers.
• Promote both up and cross selling benefits and functions to all customer accounts.
• Daily interaction with the companies CRM and ERP systems ensuring compliance with reporting and procedures.
• Liaison with the operations team and customers in processing active sales orders.
• Assist with after sales and service queries, investigate customers CAR’s and ensure that they are dealt with to the customers satisfaction.
• Develop the UK sales territory with a view to introducing an area sales/service engineers when the activity justifies the future investment.
• Any other duties within reason and capability associated with the sales and operational efforts of the business as and when requested to carry out additional tasks by your line manager and company directors.

Person profile:

• Midlands based.
• The ability to be technically and commercially compliant within a heavy industrial environment.
• A sound proven record of servicing the heavy industrial sector of industry.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to maintain existing and build new relationships.
• The ability to initiate customer contact and generate technical enquiries with a commitment to follow through to execution.

The role would suit someone who has the following characteristics

• Diligent, Methodical, mechanically minded, Proactive, Take Ownership, Team Player, Ambitious.

Hours of work:
A minimum of 35 hours per week will be worked Monday to Friday. Albeit, due to the operational requirements of our customer base then as and when the need arises to work in excess of these hours or days in order to carry out the tasks associated with your job description, then we expect you undertake the necessary commitment.