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Interfacing with major national and international customers, you will be responsible for the proposal and tender of complex high value engineering projects.
As an experienced engineer with good commercial project management skills, you will need to understand, interpret and respond to complex technical specifications and documentation.
You will liaise closely with The Engineering Department and Production Department in order to interpret and present design concepts to customers and other interested parties.
You will coordinate all aspects of the bid preparation process.
Main duties :
- To work within the engineering Department and with the Company Management Team to develop a winning strategy.
- To handle incoming sales calls and enquiries in a busy office, by keeping a prioritized listing of outstanding tasks and when completed, filing the quote and cost file in the appropriate network location
- To respond to customer questions & requests in a timely and efficient manner.
- To submit a detailed response to the enquiry documentation and provide answers/responses to any subsequent requests for clarification
- To offer ‘office based’ commercial/sales support for our Sales Department.
- To develop and maintain relationships with the engineers and decision makers within the customer organizations
- To attend resultant calls for negotiations with the customer and convert those opportunities into purchase orders
- To act as the company's internal contact point for the customer during the enquiry and bidding processes
- To develop costing as part of the quotation process.
- Must have a engineering education and background.
- Computer literacy in Access, Excel, Word
- Experience in a similar role
- Knowledge of contractual terms and conditions
- Aware of Quality Systems and the ability to work to the expected requirements of this system.
- Highly responsive to client requirements - including on time responses and incorporating changes when requested
- Good interpersonal skills
- Capable of demonstrating previously achieving successful performance within a team environment
- Able to develop effective working relationships with the Sales Team and internal/external supply network
- Demonstrate a strong interest in a sales/customer facing role and willing and enthusiastic about meeting clients
- A team player, willing to give additional input as and when required to meet client based deadlines often at short notice.
- Flexible in the face of conflicting priorities
- Prepared to be “hands-on”
- Able to learn and develop him self