Technical Sales Team Manager - Electrical Supply

A great opportunity has arisen for a technical sales manager to join an expanding company in the electrical power supply industry.Key Responsibilities:Create and implement strategic sales plans that successfully achieve business objectives.Provide on-the-ground support for the Regional and National Sales Managers as they generate leads, progress opportunities and win new orders (assisting with joint visits on a regular basis).Lead from the front taking ownership of a number of key accounts.Promote and drive effective use of the CRM system to ensure that transparency is provided across all project status'' and that the teams are working in a joined up and co-ordinated manner to win new business.Responsible for agreed sales order targets, sales pipeline and KPI''s.Use available data to forecast orders and set appropriate performance goals.Develop and maintain positive relationships with other key clients at a senior level including negotiating and closing major contracts.Be an ambassador of collaboration between the sales, engineering. marketing and commercial teams driving forward continual improvement in line with changing business needs.Train, coach, motivate and advise the team to enable collective success.Manage and further infiltrate customers to discuss their evolving needs, developing relationships to identify sales opportunities, networking and fact-finding to drive achievement of plans and objectives.Develop and implement new sales initiatives, strategies, programmes. ..... full job details .....