Sales Engineer - Leicester, United Kingdom - Optima UK Inc Ltd

Optima UK Inc Ltd

Verified Company

Leicester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Role:
Sales Engineer

Location:
Leicester/Europe/America

Salary:
Negotiable

Job Type:
Full Time / Permanent

The Role

A Role has become available for a Sales Engineer at a Space company based in either Leicester, Europe and America.

Remote work is supported from anywhere in the UK, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany.

The Sales Engineer will be responsible for assisting sales activities by providing technical support to sales teams and managing customer product fulfilment ensuring smooth delivery of products to customers.

This includes but is not limited to creating technicalpresentations materials general and targeted capture efforts, developing responses to RFI's, RFP's and other bids, identifying customer feedback, verifying complete and accurate data received by customers, answering customer queries, maintain an up-to-dateknowledge of the Space, DaaS, ISR and related domains and maintaining account data in the company's CRM system.

Reporting to the CRO the Sales Engineer will be a member of the global Business Development team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of relevant experience in a technical sales role, or
Masters and 2+ years of relevant experience
Working knowledge of standard terminology used in the Space & Defence sector
Strong presentation skills, ability to present to senior audience and explain technical concepts
Ability to translate present and future customer needs into technical requirements
Selflearner and ability to work independently
Handson attitude, selfmotivated, strong selfawareness and able to make decisions
Fluent in professional/technical English, other European languages will be a benefit
Ability to live and work within the European Union or UK without requiring visas or work permits

DESIREDEXPERIENCE:

Experience in government and commercial sales
3+ years of experience in sales engineering roles
Working experience with APIs
Experience maintaining account data in CRM's
Proficient with Office 365 products

Client Overview

The client is a fast-growing company developing a new generation of space-based radio frequency geo-location capabilities aimed at providing governments and commercial customers with surveillance data on radio, radar and other RF transmissions originatinganywhere on earth.

They own a growing satellites constellation. They have a significant pipeline of customers and prospects including governments and commercial entities.