The business operates in a competitive customer driven environment supplying bespoke solutions for industrial applications.

In addition to a well-developed marketing function the UK organisation has a large and prestigious clients made up of many of the foremost manufacturers.

Responsiveness to new customer enquiries is one of the keys to securing projects as they arise. For this reason the company has created a new role of Internal Sales Engineer to help the sales team shorten lead times on enquiries and to increase their productivity and to drive customer service standards.

The internal sales engineer will be instrumental in triaging new leads, qualifying sales opportunities improving the quality of sales data and allocating leads to the external field-based team for response.

In addition to managing responses to new leads the Internal Sales Engineer will play an active part in developing leads, following up quotes and developing decision maker data for pipeline opportunities through social media channels and through outbound discovery and research calls.

Over and above these sales operational and marketing tasks the Internal Sales Engineer will directly account manage a number of allocated customer accounts.

The role will serve as an interface between the project team, the sales team and the group level marketing function and will report to the Regional Sales Manager who is the Head of UK Sales.

The Person

The ideal person will be a well organised team player with a strong eye for detail and sound commercial instincts. Enthusiastic, inquisitive, eager to learn about different industries. Confident on the phone and video calls, able to listen and communicate clearly.

The business would expect to assist a new starter with a lot of training and support to include the training in terms of operational process product and the sales side of the role.

The person could be an existing internal sales engineer or a Graduate trainee sales engineer. A Technical background is required ideally an engineering Degree.