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Technical Sales Engineer

Peterborough
4 months ago
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Due to continued growth, my client is recruiting a Technical Sales Engineer to join a leading supplier of capital equipment. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual with experience selling machinery such as shrinkwrappers, overwrappers, checkweighers or similar capital equipment into the food & beverage, pharmaceutical, FMCG, packaging or similar industries. This will be a challenging field-based new business development role, but offers great financial incentives.

Previous experience may have been in a field-based sales role, or may have come in a customer-facing engineering environment. Previous job titles may have included Sales Manager, Sales Engineer, Business Development Manager, Account Manager, Applications Engineer or similar.

Benefits Package:

Base Salary £50,000-£60,000
Uncapped OTE £100,000+
Car, laptop and phone allowance
25 days holiday + bank holidaysThe Role:

Implement sales strategies to sell new and existing products within the portfolio to new and existing customers.
Visiting customer sites
Continually conduct market analysis.
Prepare monthly, Quarterly and yearly sales forecast.
Working in conjunction with UK Sales Team, you will prepare a business plan for future growth.Requirements:

Previous sales experience in FMCG, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Packaging machinery industry is highly advantageous
A strong technical skill-set and a genuine interest in a sales career could compensate for lack of previous experience in a similar position
Able to travel within UK and overseas when required

WR Engineering are the #1 recruitment partner for engineering, manufacturing & technical sales jobs. We recruit for permanent and contract jobs UK wide.

WR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

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