Sales Manager

Job Title: Sales Manager

Reporting to: Business Development Director

Location: India Mill, Darwen

Job Type: Permanent, Full time, 37 hour 4-day week, Monday to Thursday

Salary/Hour Rate: Competitive with benefits based on skills, experience, and relevant qualifications

If you are a highly experienced Sales Manager with experience of working within an aerospace and manufacturing environment, self-motivated with a drive to expand our customer base, build and maintain relationships and secure new business from both new and existing customers, this could be the ideal role for you

Here is what you can expect to be doing:

The Sales Manager is responsible for delivering the sales strategy through current customers whilst expanding the client base. You will be the focal point for sales activities between the company and its customer(s), ensuring exceptional customer service and client satisfaction. Duties include, but not limited to, driving sales, development of customer base, customer relationship management, delivery of proposals, representing the company at events and trade shows.

Principal responsibilities:

• Managing all aspects of sales related customer relationships both direct with the client and internally.
• Increasing sales and client base in line with company strategy.
• To represent Brookhouse at our customer and be the voice of the customer within Brookhouse.
• Organising and attending all relevant customer meetings on site or at customer premises.
• Management of all enquiries received and submission of proposals.
• Maintaining full customer sales profile and performance KPI’s including win/loss, profitability and sales targets.
• Ability to extract and summarise RFQ information for the purposes of bid/no-bid process.
• Participation in contract reviews, discussions and negotiations.
• Involvement in new product introduction including handover to operations, where necessary, and monitoring through contract life.
• Be the first point of contact for all sales related business activities.
• Representation of the company at trade shows and events.
• Other duties as appropriate in support of the customer and internal departments.
• Uphold processes that assure the effective Health, Safety and Environmental best practices as defined by the Brookhouse HSE management system.

A few things about you:

• Experience of sales management within an aerospace manufacturing environment, or similar, with a relevant degree qualification desirable.
• Commercially astute with good understanding of business cases
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Understanding of strategic and sales strategies.
• Computer literate and experienced in MS Office to a high standard including Excel.
• Enthusiastic, proactive & organised.
• Problem solving mentality.
• Analytical thinker and self-aware.
• High-level customer and business awareness.
• Ability to travel, hold a clean UK driving license and passport.
• Flexibility to carry out tasks and duties.
• Team-worker

Who we are:

Brookhouse Aerospace Limited (Brookhouse) manufactures a range of composite structures, producing monolithic and sandwich parts from a range of materials, including carbon fibre, glass and Aramid cured by autoclave. Brookhouse also manufactures sheet metal fabrications and machined metal parts with associated surface treatments and integrated assemblies. Specialist capabilities include a full kitting service and a dedicated Spares and Repairs capability.

Our markets lie within the civil and military Aerospace sector where the business maintains key relationships with prime and Tier 1 customers. Brookhouse is well positioned through an expansion in its capabilities to support the requirements of our customers as the market continues to ramp-up. The business can demonstrate to our customers its ability to satisfy their needs on a wider scale through our offering of composites, metallic, treatments and assembly from one provider / location.

Brookhouse is a well-known and respected brand within the aerospace industry and is an independently owned UK entity with an appetite for growth. The business has already invested significantly in capital equipment and new technology, including enhanced treatment capability, CNC machine tools, improved CMM capability, 3D Scanning and state-of-the art 3D printing.

Why work for us:

Aside from the competitive rate of pay, the following is available:

• 4-day week Monday to Thursday 07:15 am to 5:00 pm, 37 hours
• Holidays start at 28 days per year (including Bank Holidays) and based on the 4-day week.
• On-site – Occupational Health
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Corporate ‘Health Shield’ Cash Plan (Benefit in Kind)
• Life Insurance

Brookhouse-Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities and Age Positive Employer. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK under ITAR restrictions.

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience of: B2B Sales, Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Coordinator, Field Business Development Manager, Nationwide Sales, Account Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Senior Sales, Business Developer, Senior Business Development Manager may also be considered for this role.