Job Title: Field Sales Engineer
Location: The role is UK, home-based with no restrictions on location
Salary: £40,000 – £65,000 OTE Uncapped commission scheme (DOE) + mileage allowance / company car.
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Role:
This field sales role requires travel throughout the UK for customer visits and sales events and, as such the successful candidate can expect to spend frequent periods of time “on the road” visiting customers. Office work, making appointments, generating quotations, planning etc. will be carried out from the individual’s home office (unless home is close to the office in Romsey, Southampton).
The remuneration, sales territory and specifics of the role will be tailored to best suit the selected candidate. Hence the product “catalogue” could include some or all of their range of battery test and cycling equipment, their ac power sources and their range of potentiostats and electrochemistry instrumentation and accessories.
The Candidate:
A good understanding of electronic test and measurement instrumentation and measurement techniques is essential. The candidate will require sufficient technical and scientific knowledge to explain, demonstrate and sell products to new prospects and assist users. A background in business-to-business field sales of technical / scientific products will be an advantage as will knowledge of Electrochemistry, however neither is essential.
The successful candidate will have excellent people skills, be and able to build trust and confidence in their customers.
The candidate will be a highly motivated, self-starter with drive and the desire to be successful and achieve sales goals.
Excellent English communication skills are essential.
The successful candidate will require a full, clean UK driving licence, valid passport and be eligible to work in the UK.
The Company:
Headquartered in Romsey, Hants, they are a young, fast-growing company selling and supporting a complementary range of high-tech electronic test and measurement solutions to UK researchers and engineers. They’ve established an excellent reputation in their field, together with a strong and loyal customer base and this, together with an exciting range of new products will act as a springboard for growth over the coming period.
They specialise in serving customers involved in research in the areas of Electrochemistry, batteries, biochemistry, corrosion and fuel cells. More recently they’ve added high power ac sources to the product range.
Theirs customers are primarily academic research groups but also a rapidly growing number of industrial customers.
The company philosophy, and growth, is based upon providing excellent Support (capital S) to all customers. They believe that if even one user is unhappy with them that’s a failure and needs to be corrected urgently. The successful candidate will have similar views and, with the rest of the team, be determined to deliver this level of support to his or her customers.
The business has just completed its 11th anniversary and, during that period, has achieved sustained growth and success in their target markets. As a result they are now seeking to expand the team to build on that success.
Please note: The successful candidate should ideally possess a full UK driving licence, a valid passport and must be eligible to work in the UK.
To Apply: Please include your CV together with a letter outlining clearly and succinctly why you feel you are well suited to this role. (Applications without a suitably considered covering letter will unfortunately not be taken further as this will be used to gauge suitability for the role.)
Candidates with experience of: Sales Engineer, Technical Sales Executive, Technical Sales Agent, Scientific Sales, Business Development Manager, Sales Executive, Sales, Direct Sales, Field Sales, Sales Development, Business Development Manager, Senior Sales Executive, Scientific Instrumentation Sales, Electronics Engineer, Account Manager, Account Management Sales Account Executive, Electronic Instrumentation Sales, Test and Measurement, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Field Engineer, Electronic Design Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Electronics Quality Engineer, Research Graduate, Graduate Research Associate, Research Associate, Research Assistant, Graduate Electrical Engineer, Physics Graduate, Science Graduate, Electrochemical Engineer, STEM Graduate may also be considered for the role.
