Technical Sales Representative
Green Marble Recruitment Consultants • City Deep, South Africa
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Job description
Minimum requirements:
- Engineering Degree or relevant Trade Test qualification.
- 25 years experience in technical sales, systems engineering, or solution selling.
- Technical knowledge of pumps and/or compressors essential.
- Strong technical aptitude and ability to develop solutions for customer applications.
- Knowledge of vacuum, process or related industrial equipment advantageous.
- Ability to engage with Consulting Engineers, Contractors and technical decision-makers.
- Experience preparing technical proposals, quotations and tender submissions.
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Valid Drivers Licence essential.
- Willingness to travel for customer meetings and site visits.
- Ability to work closely with Engineering, Projects and Internal Sales teams.
Personality Traits:
- Technically minded and solutions-driven.
- Commercially focused and target-driven.
- Confident and professional.
- Proactive and self-motivated.
- Collaborative and accountable.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Drive technical solution sales across specialised industrial markets.
- Identify customer requirements and develop appropriate technical solutions.
- Build and maintain relationships with Consulting Engineers, Contractors and key technical decision-makers.
- Develop new business opportunities and expand relationships with existing customers.
- Conduct regular customer meetings, sales calls and site visits.
- Engage with customers across Medical, Water and Wastewater, Food, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and other industrial markets.
- Work closely with System Engineers, Project Engineers and Internal Sales to develop customer solutions.
- Balance technical solution development with commercial ownership of the sales process.
- Provide technical input into proposals, quotations and tender submissions.
- Influence project specifications and identify opportunities for early project involvement.
- Support broader sales and business development initiatives.
- Manage and develop the sales pipeline and follow up on opportunities.
- Provide customers with professional technical and commercial support.
- Report on sales activities, pipeline development and technical project progress.