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Sales Manager Valves & Actuators

Newport
3 weeks ago
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Sales Manager – Valve & Actuators

Office Based South Wales Monday – Friday

Full-time, permanent position

£Excellent salary and company benefits based upon experience.

Our client is the UK’s leading supplier of Process Equipment & Flow Technologies for the Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Semi-Conductor and Food & Beverage Industries to name just a few.

They supply world leading process and flow control equipment to the oil & gas, energy and power industries too.

They can provide exceptional technical expertise and engineering solutions through an unrivalled and diverse range of pumps, valves, actuators, heat exchangers, ultra filtration and other process and control instrumentation.

Due to expansion a brand-new role has been created for an Inside Sales Manager to be based out of their Welsh office.

Reporting to the UK Sales Director, the Inside Sales Manager will be responsible for supporting all UK sales business based from the Wales facility Monday through Friday.

The role is a hands-on sales management position managing all aspects of an internal sales team, offering commercial/technical support and direction to the inside sales team on all process equipment and flow control solutions; supporting the external field-based sales team and project manage the sales process internally. The Sales Manager will have direct interaction with Customers and Suppliers, Supply Chain, and liaising and supporting where needed with warehousing, HR and Finance to ensure sales are executed and the right technical solution delivered to meet the customer’s process and flow control needs.

This is a great opportunity for an existing Inside Sales Manager or office-based Process Equipment Sales Manager who has a proven track record in sales/people management for another Process Equipment Manufacturer or a Supplier of Process engineering Solutions such as valves, actuation, pumps and other flow control equipment. Alternatively, a Process Sales Engineer or Regional Sales Manager or Territory Manager with a minimum of 5 years process equipment sales i.e. filtration, process instruments or similar flow technology looking for an office-based sales management role will be fully considered. This is an ideal next step up for a commercially proven field-based Sales Manager to move into Sales Management. The ideal candidate will Ideally have a Mechanical Engineering Degree, HNC or equivalent to provide technical support and select the best process equipment to meet the clients’ needs

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