Heavy Truck/Specialist Equipment Sales (Ports/Containers) in Milton Keynes

ALEXANDER JAMES RECRUITING is currently looking for an experienced sales professional to work for a well-established supplier of various specialist commercial vehicle and material handling products to cover and develop their client base across the South of England. With a package to include a competitive salary and unrivalled commission scheme within their sector, this is an excellent opportunity for a highly commercial sales professional who has the ability to sell high value equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Managing an existing client base across the South of England.
• Business development across these areas in selling a variety of specialist heavy/big trucks, reachstackers, container handling and other handling equipment.
• Liaise heavily with an internal sales person to provide ongoing customer engagement.
• Work heavily with the Managing Director to strategically acquire new customers and calculating and achieving high margins.
• Account manage effectively by ensuring customers' service requirements are being met adequately by the engineering team.

Requirements:

• Strong appreciation of capital equipment products and understanding of the nature of the role in terms of a high value, low volume sales process.
• Preferably have experience of selling material handling equipment, agriculture, commercial vehicles, heavy plant or similar.
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen.
• Able to work with customers over a long period of time and appreciate the technical aspects of the products they sell.
• Able to work on their own initiative in a strategic manner.
• Ideally based anywhere from the Midlands downwards.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience (Up to £60,000).
• Excellent uncapped commission potential (£80,000-£150,000 genuinely achievable).
• Company car.
• 25 days holiday + statutory + birthday.
• Growth opportunity, working with a leading organisation and well-known brand within their sector.
• Potential future management opportunity.

The Company:

An extremely successful SME who have been operating for many years, our client is a provider of various high value, niche lifting and container handling products that serve the UK market. They have represented various brands over the years within heavy trucks, port and container handling and pride themselves on exceptional service with an excellent team of engineers. Due to some recent changes, they now require a sales person to work nationally in the sale of their mobile equipment range.