Technical Sales

Job Posted: 13 March 2023
- **Contract Term**:Permanent
- **Location**:Cowes, Isle of Wight
- **Contract Type**:Full time
- **Salary**:£25k - £30k depending on experience
- **Industries**:Engineering** **Manufacturing** **Sales & Marketing***

**Closing Date**: 9th April 2023

**Job Start Date**: Immediate

Strainstall are looking to appoint in the role of Technical Sales to join the sales team

Strainstall UK Ltd is part of the BES Group an independent provider of reliability and Condition Based Maintenance and Monitoring solutions, products, consultancy and training courses.

Job role
- To provide our customers with technical sales support from enquiry, through quotation to order.
- Work closely with our engineering, production and procurement teams to establish an engineered solution with accurate costings and lead times to build out detailed quotations and proposals in support of the sales function.
- Follow up ongoing enquiries to successful order.
- Building customer relationships.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to
- Ensure that the external and internal sales teams are supported with information and where appropriate coordinate getting quotations put together in a timely manner.
- Liaise with the customer to understand their requirements and challenges.
- Work with production / engineering and procurement departments to establish a solution that is fully costed with a lead-time.
- Generate a quotation, commercial and technical proposals and tenders
- Support Customer Services function as appropriate with regards to resolving any commercial or technical issues
- Provide sales guidance and technical support to the wider sales support team.
- Work with the external sales teams, agents, distributors and end clients to close the order.

Key Behaviours
- We are looking for someone who will uphold our values of behaviours by ensuring they maintain a pioneering spirit, integrity, energy and resilience as well as
- Good communication skills, written and verbal
- Highly organised
- Attention to detail
- Relationship building
- Excellent customer service and sales skills
- Ability to work under pressure to deadlines
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Willing to learn and develop knowledge and skills.

Skills and experience
- IT Literate - Word, Excel, Sage, CRM
- Technical/ engineering understanding - Knowledge of load monitoring equipment or a background in an engineering / technical company would be a distinct advantage.