Trainee Sales Engineer - Croydon, United Kingdom - Watson-Marlow
Description
Trainee Sales Engineer (Croydon)
Do you want to make a positive, sustainable difference in the world?
Do you enjoy working with others to solve problems?
Are you tech-savvy and good at building relationships with people?
If so, our Sales Engineer Development Programme could be the career opportunity for you
Our Purpose:
At Spirax Group, we build strong partnerships with a vast number of customers across the world, whether consumer goods companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, you name it, we help them to make their operations more efficient, more sustainable or more secure through our products and technical expertise.
We're proud of what we do, but we're equally proud of how we do it. Our focus on making Spirax Group a place to work that is inclusive, diverse and focused on the wellbeing of all of our colleagues is what makes us a special place to work.
Our Sales Engineers:
Our dynamic team of sales engineers play a vital role to support our customers and grow our business. By combining their ability to build strong customer relationships and an understanding of their operational challenges, together with problem solving and technical expertise, they help our customers achieve their sustainability goals, reduce cost, and improve efficiency.
It's both a rewarding and challenging career where no two days are the same, and where you can make a real and lasting difference.
Our Sales Engineer Development Programme:
We're looking for passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join our new Sales Engineer Development Programme, who we can develop to be our Sales Engineers of the future.
As participant in this programme, you will be part of a committed, innovative, and inclusive team. You will be at the forefront of our mission to engineer a more sustainable world. This role is not just about sales; it's about finding innovative solutions that help our customers reduce their environmental impact, improve efficiency, and reduce cost.
Over the two-year programme, you'll have the opportunity to work through a series of placements in multiple departments, shadow experts and meet customers. Your programme will be carefully structured to ensure you are given the best possible opportunity to learn and grow quickly, allowing you to accelerate your own career.
You will also complete an RVQ3 in Sales, with an external partner, whilst carrying out carefully designed in-house training across multiple topics from product knowledge to sales process.
Your Key Responsibilities:
·Ensure completion of the Sales Engineer Development Programme, achieving the objectives of each placement and satisfying the ongoing development requirements.
·Build your specialist product, application, technology, and industry knowledge, through working with our technical experts, so that you can understand customer needs and resolve their challenges.
·Grow your network internally and build strong external customer relationships, so that by the end of the programme you are ready to hit the ground running and have an immediate impact.
·Aim high, bringing brilliant levels self-management and motivation, working with our proven sales processes and tools, to over-achieve sales targets and goals.
Our Investment in You:
·You'll be part of a company with a clear purpose – creating a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world.
·You'll be set up for success, with the technical, commercial and behavioural capability needed, and the opportunity to gain a fully funded, externally recognised qualification.
·You'll receive close support, bespoke training and mentorship, whilst operating within a supportive work environment that is there to help you succeed.
·You'll be provided an opportunity to network within your programme cohort and beyond, creating lasting business relationships and friendships.
·You'll have the opportunity to learn and grow, and by the end of the programme, you'll take on responsibility for your own geographical area and associated customers.
·Your well-being and development will be a top priority throughout and this is underpinned by our 'Everyone is Included' commitments and our Values.
·You'll receive 27 days paid leave with 1 additional wellbeing day and an optional 3 volunteering days.
Requirements:
·A minimum of 4x GCSEs (including Maths & English at grade C/4)
·Further Education qualification (eg BTEC/NVQ/A Level)
·Eligibility to work permanently within the UK without requiring a visa.
·A Full UK drivers' licence (or working towards this)
·The desire to work in a high-pressure environment with a self-starter attitude and openness to feedback.
·A willingness to travel (and potentially relocate in the future)
·An insatiable curiosity and a drive to meet new people, learn, and make a positive impact on the world.
How to apply:
If this opportunity excites you and you are looking for an opportunity to learn a new skillset within a purpose-driven and value-oriented team, we encourage you to apply.
Together, we can engineer a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world.
Application Deadline: 12th May 2024
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at .
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.