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Area Sales Engineer

Shaw, West Berkshire
3 weeks ago
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Area Sales Manager M4 Corridor and Southern England – Process Control & Automation up to c. £55K base plus open ended Bonus, Quality Car or allowance, Pension, Private Medical, Life Assurance, Business Expenses.

Fantastic opportunity to join a market leading and progressive company in the automation and control sector as an Area Sales Engineer for Process Control & Automation products.

The Company
One of the leading providers of innovative communication interfaces, IS interfaces, Temperature transmitters and signal conditioning, Intrinsically Safe displays, explosion protected, Hazardous Area certified, ATEX solutions and other complimentary automation products and components with leading customer service and expert support.

The Role
As a technical sales engineer / field sales engineer, you are looking to achieve profitable business sales of the process automation range of products and the full product range into existing and new customers throughout the territory which includes, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall. You will be selling into a wide variety of customer types such as End Users, Panel Builders, System Integrators, OEM’s both directly and via a Partner Distribution Network, as you manage an established customer base and access information on potential customers for development. To assist your success in this you will receive comprehensive on going product training.

You will be field based and working closely with the rest of the sales team and sales managers along with your distribution partners. We are seeking candidates located anywhere within the territory described, however central would be ideal, with good access to road networks, although an excellent candidate located anywhere with the territory would be considered.

The Candidate
For this technical field sales engineer position, prospective candidates MUST have the following attributes, skills and experience:
Be an excellent communicator, negotiator and presenter, passionate about building lasting client relationships with Key Accounts.
Business to business (B2B) field sales experience as an Area Sales Engineer, Area Sales Manager, Sales Development or Business Development Manager, within control & automation, process automation, process instrumentation products. Candidates will be able to demonstrate knowledge and sales success, preferably including involvement within the oil & gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy & utilities industries, achieving specification, preferred supplier and business win.
Ideally have an engineering qualification in a relevant subject such as ONC, HNC level in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

Post codes used are for advertising purposes only and do not represent the location of the employer.

To register your interest contact us with an up to date CV and we will be pleased to call you for a confidential discussion. To view more of our positions click on the Rise logo at the top of this page or visit our website directly.

We work across a range of business to business/B2B market sectors including Renewable Energy, Electrical, Control & Automation, Electronic, Renewable Energy, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Fluid Power, Instrumentation, Engineering services companies, Industrial Consumables, Industrial Components, Capital Equipment, Material Handling, Scientific Equipment, Petrochemical and Utilities.

Rise Executive Search & Recruitment Ltd are currently working on a wide range of business to business/B2B sales positions, account management, business development and sales management roles including: Sales Manager, UK Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Country Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Executive, Senior Sales Executive, National Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Account Executive, National Account Executive, Sales Specialist, Global Account Manager, Sales Representative, Territory Sales, Field Sales, Client Relationship Manager, Sales Engineer, Sales Consultant, Technical Sales, Senior Sales Engineer, Export Sales, International Sales, European Sales, Branch Manager, Sales Director, Trainee Sales, Graduate Sales, Telesales, Internal Sales, Office Sales

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