Sales Executive - Bristol, United Kingdom - WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems

Description

Job Description

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) is a leader in the Embedded Safety and Security software market with a wide range of customers from small dynamic start-ups to some of the world's most prestigious global technology companies. We are expanding rapidly and are looking for the very best people to join our team based in Bristol.

This is a great opportunity for someone with sales experience to progress their career in an established company. The successful candidate should be articulate and a self-starter with the desire to develop their sales career within a fast-paced team.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain responsibility for personal workloads, including daily upkeep of business development activity, enquiries, callbacks, opportunities, forecasted business and live projects.
• Make effective use of the Company's CRM system in order to track and develop sales opportunities effectively and accurately maintain pipeline reports.
• Receive sales enquiries from potential customers and ensure their specific requirements are understood to develop these to a sale.
• Confidently present WHIS to organisations in a variety of formats, including some attendance at tradeshows and conferences and customer meetings when required.
• Make effective use of systems to prepare quotations and licence agreements.
• Develop knowledge of WHIS' position within the marketplace and understand our competitors' products, pricing policy and current activity in order to improve the sales process.

Personal qualities are very important to us. We are looking for a Sales Executive who can:

• Use initiative and work independently or in a small team
• Take responsibility for delivering specific tasks & projects
• Demonstrate the ability to appreciate the customer's viewpoint and to nurture relationships
• Strive to achieve the highest possible quality
• Possess excellent communication skills
• Act as the liaison between our customers and the engineering team to identify how our products will be used and how they should be tailored to customer's needs
• Show drive and determination in pursuing the correct solution for the customer
• Show integrity (it's not just our products that are high integrity, but our personnel as well)
• Work at our Bristol office (hybrid) and travel when required
• Provide evidence of a permanent Right to Work in the UK

Minimum Education Standard: Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (minimum of 2:1)

Required Experience and Expertise:

• Previous sales experience, ideally with experience selling technical/software products such as operating systems
• Previous experience working in a high-tech, engineering company
• Previous experience in a performance-driven environment
• Awareness of the implications of working in an international company
• Excellent ability in written and spoken English
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to prioritise a busy workload, and keep to deadlines
• A logical and organised approach to tasks with a high degree of accuracy

Highly Desirable Additional Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience with CRM Systems e.g. SalesForce

Benefits:

• Annual bonus based on Company and individual performance
• 25 days annual leave, with additional holiday for long service after 2 years
• 38 hour week with flexible start and finish times around core hours of Monday to Thursday 10:00 to 16:00, Friday 10:00 to 13:00
• Employer pension contribution of 8% basic salary

For more information go to our website: Careers )

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems Ltd (WHIS) is part of the WITTENSTEIN Group

Our parent company, WITTENSTEIN SE, was established in Igersheim, Germany in 1948. With turnover of around EUR 500 million and employing nearly 3,000 staff worldwide, the Group has grown into a stable and mature global technology company with a focus on high end mechatronics systems. The Group is still majority owned by members of the WITTENSTEIN family and promotes a corporate culture which is based on the values of a family firm – trust, openness, and responsibility. Being part of the Group offers enhanced support and stability to the member companies.

WHIS is the Group's centre of excellence for high integrity and safety critical embedded systems design