A leading company within the Water Treatment Industry is now recruiting for a Water Treatment Technical Account Manager to look after a territory covering from Yorkshire to the North East
You’ll be responsible for revenue and profit growth of programs and services in targeted accounts. Using a consultative sales approach, you’ll build relationships with existing customers by executing system assurance programs that meet their key business needs. With strong account leadership, you’ll also convert strategic competitive accounts and sell new technologies to current customers. manager to support and grow an established customer base, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and datacentre customers
Job Role
- Generate and execute sales plans in existing customer base and in assigned competitively-held accounts, to meet profit increase goals.
- The majority of the account base is within the food, beverage and light manufacturing industries
- Work closely with current and prospective customers to understand business needs and recommend continuous improvement and innovation plans that will maintain and grow sales
- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders within current and prospective customers, including plant or facility executives
- Provide technical support to customers; identifying and resolving customer challenges, escalating as required
- Engage in problem solving by performing system analysis, interpreting data and providing written recommendations to ensure customer operations are performing at optimal levels
- Actively sell and support customers to promote long-term business relationships
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, etc.) or Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial) preferred.
- 4-6 years of successful technical sales or field sales support experience.
- Full UK Driver’s licence
- Be able to travel abroad to participate with training and conferences, some overnight stays also may be required from time to time
- Have knowledge and skills in industrial water treatment, typically linked to utilities such as cooling towers, boilers, pasteurisers and wastewater treatment applications
- Understand UK Legionella compliance
Package:
- In return the company offer a competitive base salary £45K - £55K. bonus structure and benefits
- A company vehicle and mobile phone
- Pension, Healthcare etc
- A long term, advancing career path
- Access to the industry’s most innovative training programs
- Support from a dedicated technical service team
- A culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection
- Pride in working for a company that provides clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments