Sales Engineer

We are currently recruiting a Sales Engineer to work for a leading Aerospace customer in Milton Keynes. The ideal candidate will have strong communication, interpersonal, customer service, and sales skills and will have preferably worked in the Aerospace market.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with key customers; understand their business, their strategy, their needs, and upcoming opportunities; influence their processes and decision making to benefit.
• Collaborate with sales and engineering teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
• Identify product improvements and new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors.
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to existing and prospective customers.
• Provide product, service, technical, and engineering information by answering questions and requests for specific customer requirements.
• Travel internationally at least once per month.
• Generate high-quality sales leads, following up after initial contact, securing and renewing orders, negotiating prices, and completing sales.
• Prepare Sales Engineering reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing sales information and engineering and application trends.
• Implement and manage the timely delivery of key customer programs including communication strategies and issue resolution.
• Document account activity, generate reports, and keep records of business transactions with customers; maintain forecasting reports.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within department.
• Perform product engineering development and product support activities as directed.

Skills:

• Strong communication, interpersonal, customer service, and sales skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organization and presentation skills.
• Ability to build client relationships.
• Ability to relate technical information to non-technical customers.
• Excellent technical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong leadership and team working skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task and complete projects on time.

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor’s in marketing, engineering, business administration or equivalent.
• Experience in aerospace sales / engineering environment.
• 2-5 years working in aerospace or a related industry.