Technical Sales Engineer

Technical Sales Engineer – Pipeline Products

Job Title: Technical Sales Engineer – Pipeline Products

Job reference Number: 812863-5333-25168

Industry Sector: Technical Sales, Technical Engineer, Technical Support, Technical Advisor, Technical Manager, Technical Guru, Pipe Fittings, Pipe Connectors, Pipe Accessories, Merchants, Contractor, Mechanical Fittings, Spigots, Tooling Products, MCP, Metering Products, Pipe Barriers, Electrofusion Fittings, Electrofusion Pipes, Pushfit Fittings, Manifolds, Gas Fittings, Repair Clamps, Water Pipes, Gas Pipes, Valves, Threaded Fittings, Plumbing Merchant, Builders Merchant, Contractors, Specialist Sub Contractor

Location: West Sussex Office

Basic Salary: £30,000 – £50,000 (DOE) + company performance related bonus

Benefits: 6% pension, BUPA health, 4x death in service, and 21 days annual leave

The role of the Technical Sales Engineer – Pipeline Products will involve:

• Technical Sales Engineer dealing with a range of manufacture plastic pipelines products such as: barrier fittings, pushfit fittings, mechanical fittings, electrofusion fittings, mechanical saddles, and spigots
• Selling into builders merchants, plumbers merchants, main contractors, sub-contractors and end users
• Primarily a telephone based role acting as the technical arm to the internal and external sales teams
• Acting proactively on enquiries passed to you by the sales teams
• Liaising extensively with customers to gain an understanding of requirements
• Offering technical advice on what products would be best suited to their needs, upselling and cross selling where appropriate i.e if they’re requiring certain products is there another product that is needed to work alongside it
• Develop long-term relationships with clients, through managing and interpreting their requirements
• Keeping up-to-date with our clients full product range to enable you to offer accurate technical solutions

The ideal applicant will be a Technical Sales Engineer – Pipeline Products experience with:

• Must be a technically minded individual with experience in pipework, drainage, civils, groundworks, landscaping or a related industry
• Experience of back selling through builders merchants and/or plumbers merchants would be highly advantageous
• Related sales/technical experience of products like: above ground drainage, water supply systems, fabricated drainage systems, mechanical services, building services, valves, pumps, flues, tubes, fittings, sanitary-ware, above ground PVC soil & waste drainage, rain water harvesting, hot & cold water, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and water management solutions is not a pre-requisite
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• IT literate (Microsoft Office)