Sales Applications Engineer

Job Title: Sales Applications Engineer

Location: Scarborough (Consideration will be given to home working)

Salary: £32,250 per year.

Job Type: Full Time – Permanent. A flexible approach to working hours is required.

The Role:

This is a technical sales role to identify product and service requirements to clients that are

technically and commercially accurate and appropriate to meet identified needs/issues.

You will also provide technical support to the other sales areas within the business.

Duties/Requirements:

• Review client requirements, specifications, and drawings to create a technical solution.
• Create a client proposal including accurate costings, specifications, and value proposition.
• Suggest appropriate solutions to customer ensure the proposal meets customer and company expectations.
• Liaise with Operations to ensure timely delivery and suggest recommendations where appropriate.
• Follow up quotation with customer to ensure requirements have been met.
• Carryout site visits and surveys as required.
• Provide product technical support to the sales team and customers
• Ensure EFACS is kept updated and information is entered accurately.
• To contribute to the achievement of department and business KPI objectives.
• Undertake any other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager.

Qualifications Required:

• HNC/HND or Degree in a Science/technical subject.
• Administrative Skills.
• Keyboard and computer literacy with a high-level competency in MS Excel (spreadsheet skills).

Experience Required:

• Strong product understanding with correct application. Essentially for both AC & DC UPS.
• An understanding of ERP IT systems.
• Good communication skills with both internal and external customers.
• Good planning, organisational and resourcing skills.
• Experience in EFACS or equivalent management systems, and Microsoft Office.
• Self disciplined and able to demonstrate the ability to work remotely whilst maintaining links with the rest of the team.

Core Values/Competencies:

• Core Value: Customer Driven / Competency: Customer Focus –

Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer confidence, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.

• Core Value: Integrity / Competency: Interpersonal Skills –

Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for their actions, maintains confidentiality at all times, supports company values, conveys good news and bad, builds strong relationships, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism.

• Core Value: Passion for Excellence / Competency: Quality / Technical Skills –

Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, maintains quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems, can demonstrate a wide range of skills.

• Core Value: Energy / Competency: Self-motivation –

Consistently energetic and does not easily get distracted, self-motivated and works well with minimum or no supervision, achieves a high work rate and always looks for opportunities to excel.

• Core Value: Innovative Problem Solving / Competency: Potential / Innovation –

Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively, capable of performing a valuable role within the Company.

• Core Value: Teamwork / Competency: Teamwork / Flexibility –

Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team leader to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a team atmosphere, will do whatever is required to contribute towards and achieve goals.

• Core Value: Commitment / Competency: Attendance –

Demonstrates commitment to minimal absenteeism other than holidays, authorised absence and bereavement leave, will work additional hours or change work patterns to support Company objectives.

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role including your desired salary if successful.

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