Ever thought about going into sales with previous experience in engineering? This role presents an excellent opportunity to enhance your existing technical sales career or develop new skills and experiences. As a skilled salesperson or engineer with customer-facing experience, you have a passion for guiding projects from initial enquiry to final purchase.

My client has established their reputation over the past 30 years in the motorsport industry, providing non-contact sensors for speed, slip angle, temperature, ride height, and more. Their offerings include reference-level-accuracy equipment for ADAS, autonomous applications, and vehicle dynamics, along with DAQ solutions for automotive and motorsport test and measurement, covering everything from raw sensor signals to processed data.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Covering the UK, your responsibilities will include generating leads, handling incoming enquiries, and focusing on finding new customers and business opportunities
• Growing the business in this sector will be your primary goal, managing the sales process from the initial inquiry or lead to demonstrating equipment and closing the sale
• Additionally, after-sales support is a key aspect of this role. You will be the primary contact their customers requiring further assistance, leveraging the support provided by their suppliers
• Attend occasional UK exhibitions and travel to suppliers for training and meetings

Experience Required:

• Technical Sales Experience: Proven experience in technical sales or a strong technical background with a desire to transition into a customer-facing technical sales role
• Customer Support: Previous experience in providing customer support
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, essential for effectively pitching products and building customer trust
• Business Acumen: Strong understanding of business principles to support overall business goals
• IT Proficiency: Competent in IT, with experience in CRM systems or similar tools being highly desirable
• Motivated and Sales-Driven: Self-motivated with a strong drive for achieving sales targets
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a small team while dealing with large corporations
• Desirables: Understand DAQ: how to log analogue, digital and CAN signals. Experience with Ethernet, CAN communications and data analysis

You are likely to have experience in roles such as: Application Engineer, Sales Technician, Sales Engineer, Sales Executive, Product Engineer, Product Manager, Support Engineer, Instrumentation Engineer, Validation Engineer or existing experience with automotive test & measurement equipment: Data Acquisition, sensors and systems.