Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire (covering Southern UK – commutable from Fareham, Havant, Waterlooville, Chichester, Southampton and surrounding areas)
Salary: Up to £65,000 + excellent package (depending on experience)
Hours: Monday–Friday (office, customer visits and home working as required)
Start: ASAP
Type: Permanent
Combine your tooling expertise with a commercial career in a business that values technical knowledge.
If you've built your career designing, manufacturing or working with mould tooling and are looking to move into a more customer-focused role, this is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established precision engineering manufacturer supplying specialist tooling solutions across the UK.
Working closely with customers in the rubber and plastics industries, you'll become the technical expert they rely on, helping develop tooling solutions from concept through to manufacture while growing an established customer base across Southern England.
What's in it for you
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Up to £65,000 starting salary (depending on experience)
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Excellent benefits package
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Company car or car allowance
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Opportunity to inherit an established customer base
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Full technical sales training and mentoring where required
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Long-term career progression within a growing engineering business
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Autonomy to manage your own territory
What you'll be doing
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Managing an established portfolio of customers across Southern UK
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Responding to technical RFQs for mould tooling and converting enquiries into orders
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Working with customers at concept stage to develop practical tooling solutions
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Producing accurate quotations and refining specifications as projects develop
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Advising customers on tooling design, manufacturability and production considerations
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Building relationships with tooling engineers, project engineers and technical buyers
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Identifying and developing new business opportunities through networking, prospecting and industry events
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Working closely with the engineering and production teams in Portsmouth to deliver customer projects
What we're looking for
We're looking for someone with a strong technical background in tooling who enjoys working with customers and solving engineering problems.
You'll ideally have experience in one or more of the following:
Rubber mould tooling
Plastic injection mould tooling
Toolmaking
Mould tool design
You'll also be able to:
Read and interpret engineering drawings and tooling concepts
Understand mould design considerations including shrinkage, undercuts and manufacturability
Recommend practical tooling solutions based on real manufacturing experience
Communicate confidently with engineers, technical buyers and manufacturing teams
Previous technical sales experience would be advantageous, but it isn't essential. The business is happy to train someone with strong tooling knowledge who has the personality and ambition to develop into a successful Technical Sales Manager.
About you
You'll be someone who enjoys building relationships and isn't afraid to get out in front of customers.
You'll be:
A confident communicator
Commercially aware
Organised and responsive
Comfortable visiting customers across your region
Keen to develop new business as well as manage existing accounts
Passionate about engineering and tooling
Working pattern
This is a varied role combining:
Time at the Portsmouth facility working with engineering and production teams
Customer visits across Southern England
Office and remote working where appropriate
Your schedule will be driven by customer requirements rather than fixed office days
Salary description
£50000.00 - £65000.00 per year