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Technical Sales Representative - Northeast
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Leitz Tooling UK Team.
The successful candidate will receive full training in all aspects of machine tooling.
The Role
Being home based but ideally in the region of one of our Service Centres in Leeds or Durham, the candidate will be organised and responsible for visiting and maintaining customer sales and relations, in the assigned area, as well as developing new business in a set geographical area:
North East of the UK. Area ranges from North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, East of Leeds, Humberside, County Durham and Northumberland.
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Starting salary: £30, 0000 – £35,000 per annum depending on experience and commission.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Reporting to the National Sales and Reginal Manager.
- Offering support and technical advice to customers in the assigned area
- Project manage customer machine tool investment from the tooling side.
- Consult with OEM’s during customer machine investments
- Build a profitable business up by fully using all available time.
- Updating customers details including machine listing.
- Be a point of contact for the service centres in the area for technical enquires.
The successful candidate should:
- Have a keen desire to progress within a tooling career.
- Be punctual, dependable, and take responsibility for their own actions
- Have excellent communication skills
- Machining/engineering experience would be beneficial however not essential as full training provided.
- Able to provide eligibility to work in the UK.
- A positive can-do attitude is a must.
Benefits
- Monday – Friday
- Quarterly bonus based on hitting company service targets
- Join company pension scheme after qualifying period.
- Fully expensed company car
- Commission
- Company Phone
Future development and Opportunity
The primary role is based on technical and consultative sales. Should the right candidate develop, there is an opportunity to progress.
About Leitz Tooling
For over 135 years, the name Leitz has become synonymous with the highest quality tools for machining woods and plastics.
Our birthplace and head office are in Oberkochen, Germany, and today the Leitz group has over 2800 employees in 7 manufacturing plants, 25 sales offices, and more than 170 service centres worldwide.
With the largest number of industry experts in the UK, we rapidly prepare technical solutions for our customer's needs.
Our objectives:
- To provide the most effective tooling solutions to the industry
- To provide industry with the latest information on technical advances and solutions
- To provide a service network throughout the UK ensuring maximum tooling performance
8 Service Centres in the UK
Our service teams throughout the United Kingdom ensure standards are maintained to the highest level.
Training of our skilled personnel constantly provides them with the latest information in saw & tool geometry, design, grinding techniques and applications.
This means that our customers achieve longer production runs, reduce downtime, and the best tool performance and finish from your Leitz product.
