Construction Sales Support Specialist in Leicester

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18,000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

We are seeking a dynamic and customer-focused professional to drive engagement across our rental network and contractor base. The successful applicant will conduct regular depot and site visits to rental customers and contractors and deliver engaging on-site product demonstrations and technical support. This is a highly visible, field-based role focused on strengthening relationships, driving product adoption, and ensuring our solutions become the benchmark standard across sites.

If you enjoy building relationships, being out in the field, understanding customer issues and linking them to product solutions, and making a measurable impact on market growth, this role offers a challenging and rewarding platform to do just that.

JOB SUMMARY: The Construction Sales Support Specialist will quantify the total opportunity for Low Level Access (LLA) in the Construction sector. This position is responsible for visiting construction projects to identify the need for LLA with the end user and build relationships with contractors.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Rental customer depot/site visits
• Customer demonstrations
• Accompanied visits with rental sales team
• Support rental open/contractors safety days
• Build loyalty & staying in touch with the core market
• Understanding the competition
• Understanding the market needs and working with PD
• Show and event preparation and attendance
• Generate pull of existing customers with machines wanting to take advantage of PTC
• Continue work with T1 contractors to get PTC as the site standard required for operating LLA product range
• Ensure core customers and any other suppliers of machines are up to date with providing PTC support on sites

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree with three (3) or more years of sales experience. OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven track record in field sales in the rental/construction sectors.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in working at height products and solutions.
• Strong verbal presentation and written communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Microsoft Office proficient.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information.
• External Contacts: External contact involving a requirement to maintain a continuing external working relationship with individuals, or organizations.
• Communication Skills: Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups.
• Decision-Making: Regularly makes decisions involving how a project or operation will be conducted (i.e. sequence or method), and generally from an available set of alternatives or precedents.
• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving: Structured work, following a limited variety of standard practices.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at corporatetalentacquisition@oshkoshcorp.com.

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations.