• Account Manager
• Technical Engineering Sales
• World-Class British Manufacturer
• Bespoke Mechanical Component Manufacturer
• £35,000 - £45,000 Basic salary (experience dependent)
• OTE £50,000 - £60,000
• Home Office, Company Car, Pension, Laptop / IPad, Mobile Phone, Credit Card
• Outstanding Opportunity to break into a world class manufacturing company with outstanding training and progression opportunities.
• Area – various Northwest / Midlands / Yorkshire / Southwest
• Birmingham / Manchester / Liverpool / Leeds/ Sheffield / Nottingham / Northampton / Oxford/ Bristol / Swindon can live anywhere.

Our client is a world leading manufacturer of bespoke mechanical components for applications throughout numerous industrial sectors including oil & gas, power, aerospace, food & Beveridge, process, defence, steel, electronics, chemical, and pharmaceutical. This company is renowned for its engineering capabilities and has been established for many years and has a turnover in excess of £200 million globally. You will have the capability of selling bespoke design in engineering components into critical engineering environments. They are now looking to recruit a dynamic technical sales professional to manage accounts across a regional area in the UK. They are open on location you could be based out of the Northwest, the Midlands, Yorkshire, or the Southwest.: the role is home based.

This is an opportunity for a dynamic professional technical sales professional to work with a major global manufacturer, this is an entry level sales position. My client hires people with a positive can do attitude and people who are honest and have integrity. The previous person in post has been promoted, there are several clearly defined progression routes into Strategic Key Accounts, Business Development, international sales and Sales management. You will be managing customers across your region, selling into critical industries such as oil and gas, food and beveridge, defence, power, nuclear, aerospace, electronics, process, OEMs and end users. You will be allocated accounts; your job will be to build relationships and grow these accounts, hunting down new projects and new opportunities within your allocated accounts.

As Area Sales Manager you will take a lead role in this companies UK sales team by supporting accounts in your region and prospecting into new industrial customers. You will work and support the General Sales Manager to win sales throughout project driven customers and OEM customers. We are looking for an honest hard working and technically capable sophisticated sales professional who can spearhead emerging market growth and manage some critical customers such as Rolls Royce, Babcocks, Schlumberger, GE and many more! You will be able to solution sell, work closely with customers and develop the right product for the correct application in critical sectors.

The Candidate:

• We are open on industry sector, personality and sophistication is key!
• A strong strategic thinker with exceptional business development skills and key account management skills.
• You will have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate and sell to a wide variety of levels.
• A proven track record of business-to-business sales, experience of medium to long cycle selling would be advantageous. 
• If you have a Mechanical Engineering background either a degree, apprenticeship and or experience of mechanical components
• Products Seals, gaskets, valves, pumps, rotating equipment.
• Corporate sales experience is essential.
• Experience of selling complex components would be beneficial.
• Integrity and the right attitude is key!
• Product training will be provided.
• Able to develop new business opportunities coupled with an eye for upselling / cross selling.

Please click on the apply button or contact Jonathan Sallis at Mercury Hampton directly. We aim to respond to all successful applicants within 48 hours, however if you have not heard from us within 7 working days please consider yourself unsuccessful on this application.