Building a Pipeline and Forecast of New Business within a specific region
Accurate Forecasting to Sales Management
Identifying new prospects by research and cold calling to gain appointments
Holding customer meetings, identifying business issues and 'pain points'
Handling customer objections and closing business
Building and running marketing campaigns in your region
Liaise with our technical consultants to prepare and discuss customer presentation demos on products tailored towards the industry sector
Keeping abreast with the industry and technology by attending seminar and conferences with the vendor
Self-sufficient by managing own daily, weekly activity and reporting on weekly basis
Attend team/management meetings when required with update on sales activity and training
Based from one of their 3 locations Worcester/Bristol/Bridgend office but may require some working from home
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Personal qualities: • Ideally the candidate will have direct sales experience with a proven track record in the CAD/CAM industry. However, candidates with a technical background and looking for a sales career will also be considered • Experience of selling/working into the mechanical design, manufacturing and production industry is required. Generally we find people wishing to make a career in sales with this experience are better candidates • Solutions Sales - getting access to decision makers, identifying business issues, objection handling, negotiation and closing - Working on your own initiative • Pipeline and forecast management i.e. managing targets to meet your numbers by month end • Communication/Presentation skills - good verbal, written and formal presentation/communication • Personality - highly sales driven, a real go getter, energetic, good impact, resilient, intellect, patiently tenacious • Self-managing skills - accountable, responsible and self-sufficient, multi-tasker • Experience of working with vendors or distribution • Team player: builds strong relationships with technical consultants to prepare customer presentations/demos • Clean Driving Licence • No Criminal record