Confident Technical Sales Engineer required for large established manufacturing company based in Stourport

This exciting opportunity is looking for a key member of the sales team to build close relationships with customers in dealing with sales enquiries, producing accurate and competitive quotes.

Working with a new and existing customer base with commercial and technical support.

Main duties of the role will include:

· Processing customer enquiries, which will involve:

· Initial customer contact via telephone, email and face to face

· Managing and understanding and interpreting customer requirements

· Producing layouts and costed solutions to satisfy these requirements using CAD programs. AutoCAD is essential.

· Production of quotations/tenders in a timely, clear, detailed and accurate manner.

· Follow up quotations in a timely manner to secure profitable orders

· Maintain expert level of product knowledge and applications.

· Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product education to new and existing customers

· Ensuring orders are processed quickly and that clear and accurate information allowing for design and manufacturing is passed to the relevant department

· Ensuring that customers are kept informed of order (contract) status and that any issues are resolved quickly

· Maintaining accurate up-to-date records of enquiries, quotations, orders and customer activity via Sage CRM

· Pursue new business opportunities

· Occasional site and customer visits

· Supporting the Contracts, Engineering and Production departments

· Building relationships with customers and potential customers to understand their requirements.

The right candidate would ideally

· Hold relevant technical sales experience

· Have experience working with Autocad including 2D and 3D drawings

· Experience working within a busy manufacturing environment

· Maintaining accurate up-to-date records of enquiries, quotations, orders and customer activity via SageCRM

· Confident to pursue new business opportunities

· Happy to attend occasional site and customer visits

· Excellent communication skills

Hours Monday to Thursday 7.30m to 4pm, Friday 7.30am to 1pm