* Highly competitive basic salary with an attractive bonus and incentive scheme.
* Regular team social events and company celebrations.
* Excellent training, mentoring and ongoing professional development.
* Genuine opportunities for career progression and advancement.
* A supportive, collaborative and high-performing team environment.
* The chance to make a real impact within a growing and successful business.
* Recognition and rewards for achieving and exceeding key business objectives.
Your Next Career Opportunity
Are you an ambitious and driven business development professional looking for a role in a technical sector where your efforts genuinely make a difference?
Our client is a highly successful Newcastle city centre-based professional services organisation that supports a diverse range of clients across manufacturing, engineering and technical sectors. Due to continued growth and success, they are now looking to strengthen their sales team with the appointment of a Technical Sales Specialist.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that values teamwork, collaboration and achievement. You'll play a pivotal role in identifying new opportunities, winning new clients, and helping to drive the company's future growth.
What makes this opportunity particularly attractive is the culture. The business has built a close-knit, supportive and hardworking environment where sales and service teams truly work together to achieve common goals. Your success will directly contribute to the success of your colleagues, clients and the wider business.
If you're someone who has an engineering or manufacturing background and thrives on building relationships, opening doors, creating opportunities and delivering results, this role will provide both the challenge and reward you're looking for.
Most importantly, you'll be motivated by helping both your clients and colleagues succeed. In return, you'll join a business that recognises performance, rewards success and provides genuine opportunities to develop your career.
The Role
Working closely with internal service teams, you will be responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities across a variety of sectors and markets.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Generating new business opportunities through proactive sales activity.
* Conducting high-volume outbound business development calls.
* Building relationships with prospective clients and decision-makers.
* Researching target markets and identifying commercial opportunities.
* Arranging and attending client meetings and presentations.
* Delivering professional company presentations and proposals.
* Maintaining accurate CRM records and sales activity reports.
* Producing daily and weekly business development reports.
* Working collaboratively with internal teams to ensure a seamless client experience.
* Contributing ideas and initiatives to support business growth and market expansion.
* The role is office-based, in Newcastle city centre.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
* Previous experience within a business-to-business sales or business development environment is essential.
* A technical background in manufacturing or engineering.
* Ideally you will be degree qualified, though not essential.
* A proven track record of generating new business and developing client relationships.
* A resilient, proactive and commercially focused approach.
* Confidence in making outbound calls and engaging with senior decision-makers.
* Strong communication, relationship-building and presentation skills.
* A genuine desire to contribute to a team-focused culture.
* Excellent listening skills and the ability to understand client needs.
* A positive attitude, strong work ethic and determination to succeed
Salary description
£35000.00 - £45000.00 per year