Area Sales Manager

You’re an experienced Sales Manager / Sales Engineer looking for a better opportunity?  You come from an Electrical / Electronic Equipment / Machinery / Instrumentation or Component background?  We want you to help drive our sales with new and existing customers across the UK.  Based out of our offices in Watford (with remote / hybrid options for the right candidate) – click apply to find out more.
 
BASIC SALARY: Circa £50,000
 
BENEFITS:
· Company Car / Allowance
· Bonus based on sales margin
· Good holiday package rising with service
· Access to full company benefits including pension etc.
 
LOCATION: Watford
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Hemel Hempstead, Luton, St Albans, Aylesbury, Stevenage, Milton Keynes, London
 
JOB DESCRIPTION: Business Development Manager / Area Sales Manager/ Sales Engineer – Electrical / Electronic Testing Equipment
 
This is a classic sales, business development and account management role – selling electrical / electronic instrumentation to customers from small businesses to multinational corporations.
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Business Development Manager / Area Sales Manager/ Sales Engineer – Electrical / Electronic Testing Equipment
 
· Leveraging existing relationships to increase sales to those clients and competitors of those clients and beyond.  Selling to a wide range of sectors from utilities, maintenance, facilities management and contractors to general industrial customers.
· Time will be split between our Watford office and visiting customers across the country.
· Order values vary from a few hundred pounds to several thousand.
· Big ticket sales are the specification of products into larger companies – which you will work on alongside the new UK Sales Manager.
· Most sales go through our distribution channels, but the role is to encourage the ultimate user to buy / specify the products.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Field Sales / Area Sales Manager/ Sales Engineer  / Electrical / Electronic Testing Equipment / Account Manager /
 
Your background will be either:
 
a) Experienced salesperson from an Electrical / Electronic test and measurement equipment or instrumentation background.
Or
b) A consultative technical salesperson of electrical / electronic equipment / machinery or components.
 
Either way, you’re a driven sales professional with the ability to offer consultative, solution-based sales.  
 
You almost certainly have some sort of electrical / electronic qualification – so you’re technically minded and credible in front of engineers and technical managers / directors.
 
You’re able to network through existing accounts and build credibility at a number of levels – selling from front line engineers to purchasing departments of multi-national corporations.
 
THE COMPANY: We are a well established branded manufacturer of portable / hand held electronic test equipment.
 
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Area Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Commercial Manager, Project Engineer, Regional Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Specification Sales, Sales Engineer, Sales Team Leader – Electrical Components, Electronic Components, Electrical Instrumentation, Electrical Equipment, Utilities, Engineering, Facilities Management.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: SP17805, Wallace Hind Selection

Type: Permanent

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