Job Description:

Our client is an Engineering company based in the Salford area and they require an experienced Internal Sales Engineer to join them on a permanent basis.

Key Accountabilities

1. Assist in the quoting and selling of motors and other rotating/control equipment, namely electric motors, pumps, gearboxes and geared motors, inverters and fans as part of the motor sales department.

2. Complete the daily paperwork as required in the department, including but not limited to job paperwork, the daily spreadsheet and quotations.

3. Manage electric motor stock and be responsible for the motor stock check at the end of each 4 week period or other times as required.

4. Manage, and carry out if necessary, the feedback following job quotations for the sales department, including calling customers for quote progress.

5. Assist in fulfilling orders for the sales website.

6. Liaise with suppliers to get the best possible terms on motors and other items sold. Find new suppliers in order to improve terms.

7. Provide support to the sales and other departments when necessary.

9. Provide out of hours support via mobile phone, answering new motor queries from the workshop – this is not expected to be onerous but is expected while you are not on holiday.

Competencies

• Customer Focus – Making clients and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; developing and sustaining productive client relationships;
• Building Strategic Working Relationships – Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Initiating Action – Taking prompt action to accomplish department objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive;
• Adaptability – Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in motor sales department tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures
• Communication - Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message;
• Motivated – be motivated to improve the departmental sales performance and be keen to try new ideas/initiatives in order to help progress.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required: An engineering qualification is preferred (from ONC up to degree level in a relevant Engineering discipline), together with experience within the electric motor/rotating equipment sales field and evidence of training by original equipment manufacturers. Experience within a repair environment would also be an advantage. Must be fully competent with respect to IT including use of Sage products, Word and Excel. Experience with Google pay-per-click advertising and Google Analytics would be an advantage.

Essential

Sound knowledge of engineering

Previous internal sales experience in the engineering sector, with power transmission or rotating equipment.

This role has a basic salary £40K plus quarterly bonus and great holiday entitlement and company benefits.