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SALES SUPPORT ENGINEER-INDUSTRIAL & MARINE SALESHERTFORDSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRESALES

Employment Type Permanent
Location Hertfordshire , Hertfordshire
Industry Sector Sales
Start Date 24/07/2008
Salary/Rate £25000 - £30000 per annum + pension
Reference 159239GNL
Date Advertised 18-07-2008 - 00:02

This vacancy is out of date and no longer accepting applications.

Description

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A leading engineering company are looking for a Sales Support Engineer to manage technical proposals, negotiations and relationship building.

Main Purpose of Job:

Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare business recommendations for annual and extended pricing agreements to secure existing business on the most favourable terms.
- Obtain data to support sales and order budget preparation and forecasting.
- Develop strong long term customer relationships.
- Respond to enquires, liaising with Purchasing, Engineering, Production and Order Processing in order to prepare quotations.
- Provide fast turn-around of 'price list' quotations.
- Quotation submission, follow up and subsequent analysis of conversion to order rates.
- Contract review of subsequent orders, customer screening and order input.
- Competitor analysis to identify market strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- Be the first point of customer contact and respond to general customer and end user technical requests, including logging enquiries from customers.
- In conjunction with the Sales Manager assisting in the process of customer contract negotiations. Ensuring that the terms of existing business agreements are adhered to.
- Gather and analyse data on which to base customer satisfaction measures.
- Visit existing, prospective new customers.
- Report preparation for monthly / annual sales and quotation conversion rates.
- Attend internal meetings regarding engineering, product development and sales, handling any subsequent sales related actions as requested.
- Receiving visiting customer's representatives, performing technical presentations to promote the products and the business.

Skills and Qualifications
Essential
- Good IT skills
- A good technical background i.e. Min HND in engineering
- - Ability to write technical proposals

Desirable:
- Working knowledge of Vibration monitoring and Condition Monitoring.
- A recognised technical qualification would be an advantage.
- Desirable- Well developed technical sales skills, proven in a sales role.
- Desirable- Experience in Petrochemical and/or Oil and Gas industries.

The salary for the role is £23k-£30k+ pension etc







To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK


Matchtech Group Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.