Sales Manager required for Global Engineering Company to lead sales planning, quotation, tendering and negotiation for the company's specialist engineering product. As such, the Sales Manager will have experience of selling special purpose machinery / production equipment or similar mechanical end products to manufacturing engineering firms.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to fast-track their career to board level should targets be hit and exceeded. Fantastic opportunity!

With a minimum 4yrs commercial experience duties will include:

Project planning
Sales planning
Business Development
Sales team management (both domestically and globally)
Pricing strategy (cost and schedule control)
Quotation
Tendering / Proposal / Negotiation / Bid management
Risk management
Change management and control
Reporting and documentation Valid visa for travel required (EMEA, APAC). To qualify for this competitive and exciting position the applicant must have:

4yrs in Sales / Proposals / Bid experience in an engineering arena
Superb communication skills (written and verbal)
Management experience
Excellent client facing skills The job requires:

Heavy customer focussed and client facing work. Therefore, travel required.
Good understanding for mechanical engineering products (machinery)
Negotiation of client terms and conditions
Developing long term relationships
Develop new market areas
Managing internal resources
Aligning bids to ensure smooth delivery of product to client
Ability to convey complex engineering solutions across a range of departments and end clients
Managing multiple sales cycles and projects concurrently
Managing a long sales cycle on some of the deliveries.

Very good remuneration for the right applicant. Benefits include:

25 days holiday,
6% pension
health and life insurance
death in service cover
Company bonus schemeThe sales work will require the incumbent to be in the office / HQ from time to time, mixed with travel and working from home.

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