Sales Engineer – Lighting in Luton, Bedfordshire
Posted by Mitchell Maguire
£50,000 – £65,000 a year
Luton · Permanent
Sales Engineer – Lighting
Job Title: Project Sales Engineer – LED Lighting
Industry Sector: LED Lighting, Electrical Contractors, Electricians, Electrical Wholesale, Education, Emergency Services, Healthcare, Industrial, Warehousing, Office, Residential, Retail & Leisure and Sports
Area to be covered: North London and Northern Home Counties
Remuneration: £50,000-£65,000 Neg. + 1% Commission
Benefits: EV car option after probation period & benefits
The role of the Trade Account Manager – LED Lighting will involve:
- Field sales position selling a manufactured and distributed range of LED lighting including; downlights, versatile battens, canopy, exterior wall, ground lights, hazardous, floodlights, emergency, weatherproofing and accessories etc.
- 75% of your time stimulating demand with electrical contractors and electricians
- Lighting project based sales from £5,000-£500,000
- £500,000 new business revenue target
- Remaining 25% back-selling through established electrical wholesale dealer network
- Typical projects include; education, emergency services, healthcare, industrial, warehousing, office, residential, retail & leisure, sports etc.
- Survey site installations where necessary
- Ensure tenders, quotes and technical submittals are accurate and progressed
- Support for electrical wholesale branches on lighting project enquiries
- Identify opportunities by working with electrical wholesale branch network
The ideal applicant will be a Trade Account Manager – LED Lighting with:
- Electrical field sales background, lighting preferred
- Must have sold into electrical contractors/ electricians
- Experience of managing small to large lighting projects through survey, design, tender and sales stages
- Strong technical capability
- Ideally with local electrical contractor knowledge on patch
- Good knowledge of electrical wholesalers
- Familiar with CRM, Microsoft 365 software
- Full driving licence
The Company
- Eat. 50 years+
- £45m turnover
- Owned by a larger group
Mitchell Maguire is a specialist Construction Field Sales Recruitment Consultancy, dealing exclusively with Construction Field Sales Jobs, Construction field sales vacancies and Specification field sales positions within: LED Lighting, Electrical Wholesale, Electrical Contractors and Electricians, Downlights, Battens, Floodlights, Emergency Lighting, Light Energu Surveys, Luminaire Stock
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