Salary & Benefits
Negotiable Salary Package, Pension, and other benefits.
Job Overview
Our Client requires an Internal Sales Engineer with experience in Electrical control and automation to provide sales and technical support to the external customer base, while developing and maintaining customer relationships and promoting products and services to maximise sales opportunities.
You are most likely to be residing in the North of the Tyne area, including North Shields, Whitley Bay, Wallsend, Longbenton, Jesmond, Cramlington, and Blyth, to commute to work.
Ideally you will possess knowledge of a wide range of electrical market related products and have strengths in more than one product area, such as industrial electrical, control & automation/factory automation/process control, control gear, switchgear, automation equipment, variable speed drives, PLC, HMI, instrumentation, cable management systems, connection systems, industrial data comms enclosures, sensors, and possibly ATEX equipment.
Key Responsibilities
As the Internal Sales Engineer you will respond to and handle all product technical enquiries. You will be required, with training, to understand and be familiar with the full product range with the ability to offer alternatives if required and advise on the selection of products where possible. You will liaise with Field Sales Engineers and other staff to achieve the branch objectives and sales performance and, as is normal in a small team environment, engage in other duties. It is also expected that you have commercial ability and awareness to generate quotations for customers and are competent to judge the competitive situation needed to win the order whilst being mindful of profitability.
Qualifications & Experience
In order to perform this role successfully you will need technical electrical knowledge. Technical qualifications are flexible if you can illustrate your knowledge, product applications knowledge, and commercial awareness. The ideal candidate may already be in a similar role as an internal sales engineer, technical support engineer, an electrical engineer looking to move into a commercial environment with the ability to illustrate good customer and administrative skills, or a graduate engineer with customer experience in a sales environment looking to develop their career in technical sales.
* GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent)
* No mandatory qualification but relevant knowledge and experience must be demonstrated; an ONC/HNC in Electrical Engineering (or other electrical engineering qualification) is an advantage.
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and data entry systems
* Full clean driving licence
* Experience in a similar sales/customer service environment
* Experience with an electrical engineering role, or a background in electrical distribution, would be an advantage
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