sales manager Southampton, England
Job description
Westermo provides a full range of industrial data communications solutions for demanding applications, primarily in the transport, water, and energy markets among others. For more than 45 years Westermo has been at the forefront of technological development. Over the past few years, the Westermo family has expanded, enabling us to grow and offer Wi-Fi, 4G, and, public and private solutions into more diverse markets. As the Westermo product portfolio grows so does our aspirations to deliver turn-key solutions into these challenging yet exciting markets.
At Westermo your welcome to work flexibility, within a team, that are all pulling together to promote products, solutions, and services. This could be directly or collaboratively with our internal and external partners. We expect you to quickly listen to the Customer, understand their challenges and effectively build a proposition that we can deliver that exceeds the customers’ expectations.
An experienced Sales Manager focusing on the UK Energy Market is needed to join the Sales team to further expand our established presence into this market. One such challenge is the new communication technologies which needs to support legacy systems; we need someone who is willing to understand these challenges and build on our unparalleled reputation to deliver.
Duties & Responsibilities
To build on present business and relationships within the UK Energy market and achieve sales and revenue targets. We encourage flexible working but need our sales team to engage with customers who now welcome face to face meetings.
To identify, develop and convert new opportunities into sales orders, while maintaining a thorough watching brief and follow up procedure for potential opportunities.
Understand and mange typical Utility based tender processes and generate necessary responses with support from other team members.
To have the ability to comprehend a customer’s challenge, be attentive to their needs and to work with our sales, support teams and channel to demonstrate and proposition not only a technical but commercial solution.
Actively seek feedback on customer requirements and product development, information should be conveyed to relevant manager for action.
Be responsible for Westermo’s membership of any appropriate associations within the UK Energy market.
Build and maintain clear customer records with the company CRM system, attend regular sales meetings and provide clear and concise activity reports and forecasts as and when required.
Develop knowledge of Westermo product portfolios, developing contacts within the sales and product offices of these Westermo group companies.
Liaise with the global director of Energy and his team and assist were possible.
Qualifications
What do I need to qualify for this job?
A degree or higher qualification in Electrical, Electronic Engineering or a similar discipline.
Expert understanding of the UK power, transmission, distribution, off-shore wind and energy markets.
Understanding of IEC 61850
Good understanding of emerging communications technologies such as Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, public and private networks. Ability to work with all stakeholders to build eco-systems to deliver customer solutions.
Primarily a hunter looking for new customers but with the ability to work with the excising customer base.
Clear understanding of product vs solutions selling with the ability to offer whatever the customer needs regardless of the complexity of the customers’ needs.
Ability to look beyond the product but how complex solutions will be deployed and maintained with zero-touch provisioning and monitored using dedicated software.
Understand the differences between OT and IT and how Westermo can help organisations who are looking to converge OT & IT.
Experience of working in a team environment or self-motivated when working from home.
Desirable Requirements
Knowledge of Cyber security including IEC 62443
What else do you need to know?
Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance, EV/hybrid company car or car allowance and pension. We also offer other support packages.
Recruiting Manager: Alan Bollard, Managing Director Westermo UK
