Sales Manager - Europe

Are you an experienced sales or account manager seeking a new challenge? * Have you a proven track of working with customers in France, Germany, Belgium or other European countries? Working for an exciting, expanding and successful company, this is a great opportunity for an experienced sales manager / account manager with experience of supplying mechanically engineered products into OEMs and system integrators in France, Germany, Benelux and other European countries too. You will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience; * Strategic development of sales territories to achieve sales targets * Managing existing clients * Engaging, supporting and developing new customers * Identifying and seeking new sales opportunities * Attending exhibitions, trade shows and other events * Working closely with engineering to ensure products are developed to suit customer requirements Looking at technical and market trends, finding perhaps untapped sectors, you will enjoy a varied but supported role. Maximising the growth potential in these countries, developing strategic growth and marketing plans to include defining customer needs, business development activities, forecasting monthly sales and profits through to technical support. Your strengths will include combining an analytical approach with strong commercial acumen and a strategic approach to growing business. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must as you will be building robust relationships at all levels to create success. Highly organised with strong presentation skills, you will be a confident team player with strong influencing skills, fluency in French is essential and other languages would perhaps be useful such as German, Spanish or Portuguese. You will need to be comfortable with regular travelling within Europe to customers as required. You could be based anywhere in the UK but happy to travel to UK Head Office and European customers as required. Experience of supplying components or products into commercial vehicle body builders, truck builders, specialist vehicles, vehicle converters, frontline vehicles, military vehicles or similar in Europe is essential. You may have worked previously as a Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Business Development Manager, Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, European Sales Manager, European Account Manager, EMEA Sales Manager, EMEA Account Manager or similar