Technical Sales Engineer
Essex
£40,,000 + Company Car + Commission Scheme circa 10% + Pension
The Company
Our client has a 50-year trading history designing, developing and providing the highest quality plastic mouldings for customers in the medical, scientific and numerous other industrial sectors.
The business employs 60 staff with a £6 million turnover and typically commissions £½ million of new tooling each year.
Due to succession planning the business is in the market for a Technical Sales Engineer who will be responsible for taking incoming enquiries for new business, and through working closely with customers, toolmakers and the internal manufacturing team convert these enquiries into orders.
The Role
The role of Technical Sales Engineer will be responsible for taking customer enquiries from point of first enquiry through to order won. Some enquiries could be for one tool and larger orders could have several tools that need developing. You would be initially mentored and guided in the role by a Technical Sales Manager who has over a decade in the business and a long history in injection moulding.
A typical sales process will be as follows:
1. CAD data comes from a potential customer for a part to be manufactured.
2. CAD data is forwarded to a toolmaker to determine potential concerns and budget cost.
3. Technical Sales Engineer reviews the information from the too...