Internal Sales Engineer in Huddersfield

Location: Aflex - UK - Bradley Business Park

Location Type: Hybrid

Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Internal Sales Engineer to join our dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Internal Sales Engineer is responsible for providing technical, commercial, and administrative support to customers and internal stakeholders.
• This role ensures that all customer enquiries receive accurate technical guidance, competitive and timely quotations, and professional service.
• This position acts as an important interface between customers, External Sales Engineers, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Service to ensure the smooth delivery of Aflex Hose solutions.
• You will demonstrate a positive attitude to learning, technical development, and teamwork, ensuring customer expectations and departmental targets are achieved.
• Acting as a primary contact for customer enquiries via email, telephone, and CRM systems.
• Understanding customer specifications, drawings, and technical requirements to provide accurate product and configuration recommendations.
• Supporting customers and colleagues with technical queries relating to Aflex hose construction, capabilities, applications, and compatibility.
• Quotation & Order Processing
• Preparing accurate and timely quotations using Stock 2004 and CRM systems.
• Ensuring quotations reflect correct pricing, technical details, and lead-time information.
• Processing orders in accordance with company procedures, ensuring correct configuration, pricing, and documentation.
• Liaising daily with External Sales Engineers to coordinate customer requirements and resolve queries.
• Working with Engineering, Planning, and Production teams to confirm technical feasibility and align realistic lead times.
• Supporting Operations by providing clear technical input and specification details to minimise manufacturing errors.
• Developing and maintaining strong knowledge of Aflex product ranges, hose capabilities, standards, and customer applications.
• Direct responsibility for certain category customers.
• Providing data for sales reporting, forecasting, and pipeline updates as required by the Internal Sales Manager or Sales Director.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the Internal Sales team.
• Contributing to departmental organisation, including management of shared inboxes and collaboration tools.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong technical and commercial interest or background (engineering, manufacturing, mechanical understanding).
• Excellent communication and customer-facing skills.
• Ability to interpret drawings/specifications (training provided).
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple tasks.
• Experience in a technical sales or manufacturing environment.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more

Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and Values unite us, guide our decisions and inspire us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.