Technical Sales Manager – Tooling

echnical Sales Manager – Tooling

Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire (covering Southern UK – commutable from Fareham, Havant, Waterlooville, Chichester, Southampton and surrounding areas)
Salary: Up to £65,000 + excellent package (depending on experience)
Hours: Monday–Friday (office, customer visits and home working as required)
Start: ASAP
Type: Permanent

Combine your tooling expertise with a commercial career in a business that values technical knowledge.

If you've built your career designing, manufacturing or working with mould tooling and are looking to move into a more customer-focused role, this is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established precision engineering manufacturer supplying specialist tooling solutions across the UK.

Working closely with customers in the rubber and plastics industries, you'll become the technical expert they rely on, helping develop tooling solutions from concept through to manufacture while growing an established customer base across Southern England.

What's in it for you

• Up to £65,000 starting salary (depending on experience)

• Excellent benefits package

• Company car or car allowance

• Opportunity to inherit an established customer base

• Full technical sales training and mentoring where required

• Long-term career progression within a growing engineering business

• Autonomy to manage your own territory

What you'll be doing

• Managing an established portfolio of customers across Southern UK

• Responding to technical RFQs for mould tooling and converting enquiries into orders

• Working with customers at concept stage to develop practical tooling solutions

• Producing accurate quotations and refining specifications as projects develop

• Advising customers on tooling design, manufacturability and production considerations

• Building relationships with tooling engineers, project engineers and technical buyers

• Identifying and developing new business opportunities through networking, prospecting and industry events

• Working closely with the engineering and production teams in Portsmouth to deliver customer projects

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone with a strong technical background in tooling who enjoys working with customers and solving engineering problems.

You'll ideally have experience in one or more of the following:

Rubber mould tooling

Plastic injection mould tooling

Toolmaking

Mould tool design

You'll also be able to:

Read and interpret engineering drawings and tooling concepts

Understand mould design considerations including shrinkage, undercuts and manufacturability

Recommend practical tooling solutions based on real manufacturing experience

Communicate confidently with engineers, technical buyers and manufacturing teams

Previous technical sales experience would be advantageous, but it isn't essential. The business is happy to train someone with strong tooling knowledge who has the personality and ambition to develop into a successful Technical Sales Manager.

About you

You'll be someone who enjoys building relationships and isn't afraid to get out in front of customers.

You'll be:

A confident communicator

Commercially aware

Organised and responsive

Comfortable visiting customers across your region

Keen to develop new business as well as manage existing accounts

Passionate about engineering and tooling

Working pattern

This is a varied role combining:

Time at the Portsmouth facility working with engineering and production teams

Customer visits across Southern England

Office and remote working where appropriate

Your schedule will be driven by customer requirements rather than fixed office days.