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Technical Sales Engineer – UK & Ireland

Are you an experienced Technical Sales Engineer looking for an exciting new challenge? A leading food process machinery manufacturer is seeking a driven and dynamic sales engineer to join their UK team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a solid sales background, finding new routes to market and a passion for building strong customer relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

  • As a Sales Engineer, you’ll be the first point of contact for clients, building rapport and understanding their technical needs to provide tailored solutions.
  • You’ll split your time between the office and visiting clients across the UK and Ireland, with regular travel and overnight stays.
  • You’ll manage new business development as well as some existing accounts, aiming to hit sales targets while providing top-notch service.
  • Prepare and conduct demonstrations and trials for machinery and equipment.
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams to develop and implement business strategies that drive growth.

What We’re Looking For:

  • A strong sales background with proven success in technical sales, ideally within machinery or manufacturing.
  • Ability to investigate and find potential new routes to market for the company products.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to quickly connect with clients.
  • Resilience, tenacity, and independence with a knack for problem-solving and analysis.
  • Strong team-working skills with the ability to manage customer relationships efficiently.
  • High-level administrative skills, especially for CRM database management.

What’s On Offer:

  • Basic Salary: Up to £48,000 per year (dependent on experience)
  • Bonus: Potential to earn circa £15,000 in bonuses annually.
  • Company Vehicle provided.
  • Pension Scheme and Health Care benefits after 6 months.
  • Gym Access with subsidised membership.
  • Full and extensive training, including one month at HQ at the start of your employment.

This is a full-time, permanent role, offering flexibility but requiring a commitment to meeting targets. If you’re passionate about being a sales engineer and ready to take your career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you.

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Completed Assignment – Industrial Capital Equipment

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Benefits of using our Headhunting Service

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1. Reduce the time and effort recruiting: Posting job openings and reviewing an influx of cv’s or résumés takes a lot of time and effort that you could be spending elsewhere. With myself headhunting for you, you receive a much more focussed batch of potential candidates, all of whom have been pre-qualified. Saving you time and money.

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So stop wasting time, effort and money and speak to me today regards developing and expanding your team, to ensure you are made aware of the best talent available in the marketplace by utilising our unmatched executive search capabilities.

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Completed Assignment – Thermal Technology

Once again an Executive Search project was quickly completed successfully within just a few weeks of starting the assignment. Approached at the end of July by a European Specialist in Thermal Applications to find them a UK Sales Manager, by the middle of August we had three excellent candidates and the company made an offer to their preferred choice at the start of September. So yet another company benefitted from the fact that Aarca is boutique style and only works on a small number of projects (usually one) at a time until completion.

Sometimes small is beautiful, so instead of being just one in a pool of gradually increasing hundreds of clients with a large agency, come and speak to us, where you are always our top priority.

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Completed Recruitment Assignment – Pump Industry

Another headhunting project completed successfully within just a few weeks of starting the assignment. Approached by a German company in the pump / waste-water / biogas sectors to find a UK Sales Engineer, the company benefitted from the fact that Aarca only works on a small number of projects at a time until completion.

This allowed us to quickly focus and unearth the right candidates without being distracted like most agencies by the need to get more vacancies on and split our time between projects and business development.

Sole focus meant we already had a candidate shortlist available after just a week or so of starting our search, and another happy International Client offering one of the candidates the position within a few weeks.