Sales Engineer

Based anywhere in the North UK, we are looking for a Technical Sales Engineer to join our team, helping us grow our existing business. We supply and manufacture high-reliability electronic components for some of the biggest hitters in various industries and you will be visiting these customers and assisting them with technically demanding projects.
 
BASIC SALARY: £60,000
 
BENEFITS:
· Company car or mileage allowance
· Bonus (circa £10k - £15k)
· 25 days holiday
· Expenses package for meals, travel, hotels etc  
· BUPA
· Pension
 
LOCATION: North UK
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Liverpool, Blackpool, Preston, Middlesborough, Hull, York, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Blackburn, Bradford, Huddersfield, Doncaster, Oldham, Barnsley, Burnley, Scunthorpe
 
JOB DESCRIPTION: Technical Sales Engineer - Electronic Component, Manufacturer
 
As our Sales Engineer, you'll be supporting customers with component selection, getting involved in the design activity, developing new opportunities and helping turn those opportunities into long-term business.
 
What will you be doing?
· Providing technical and commercial support to customers across the UK.
· Supporting customer design activity, qualification projects and design-in opportunities.
· Visiting customers and attending meetings, exhibitions and supplier visits.
· Identifying and developing new business opportunities across existing and prospective accounts.
· Supporting franchise growth initiatives and supplier development plans.
· Supporting supplier presentations, training sessions and joint customer visits.
· Initially focused on supporting and growing existing business with a longer term focus on bringing on new business
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Technical Sales Engineer - Electronic Component, Manufacturer
 
Ideally, you will come from a technical sales, applications engineering, field sales engineering or product specialist background within the electronic components industry.
 
Experience with the following components would be beneficial: passive components, capacitors and resistors, magnetics and transformers, power supplies, circuit breakers, EMC, RF, sensors and oscillators.
 
You will also need to:
· Understand electronic and / or electromechanical components and the uses.
· Have experience supporting customer design activity and developing technical opportunities.
· Demonstrate the ability to have conversations with everyone from engineers and procurement teams through to commercial stakeholders.
· Have a full clean UK driving licence and be happy to travel regularly across the UK.
· Have a track record of working with customers in aerospace, defence, space, rail, industrial, audio or other high-reliability sectors would be particularly useful.
 
THE COMPANY:
 
We are a privately-owned specialist manufacturer and distributor of commercial electrical components. We have over 45 years of experience as an Approved Supplier to major OEMs and CEMs in the industrial, defence and other high-end sectors. We are a distributor who are able to reach all clients and industries in the market.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the recruitment partner of our client.
 
REF: AM18675, Wallace Hind Selection