Area Sales Manager - Large Motors & Generators

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for selling ABB's extensive range of large induction motors to our key OEMs, end-users, and partners in the designated geographical area defined below, in line with the division's strategy. Each month, you will achieve both qualitative and quantitative sales targets to ensure sustainable order growth, revenues, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. You will also showcase your expertise by identifying and developing new sales opportunities, including retrofits/replacements for the ageing legacy installed-base in the territory.

The work model for the role is: Home-based, covering a sales area that includes the West Midlands, the South-West of England and Wales. The ideal candidate should be based in this territory.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Selling products/systems/services to customers, focusing on volume, mix, and profitability targets for the assigned division.

• Establishing and maintaining effective customer relationships to understand their needs, promoting their understanding of ABB’s complete product/systems/services offering, and aligning with them to provide a solution.

• Ensuring a positive customer experience throughout the sales process.

• Creating added value for the customer and ABB, and ensuring the successful outcome of proposals and contracts, by using effective sales techniques.

• Utilising the CRM tool to enhance customer relationship management by streamlining communication, tracking interactions, and providing valuable feedback on customer behaviour.

Qualifications for the role

• Ideally, an HNC, HND or a degree in a relevant engineering subject

• Comprehensive understanding of the Large Electric Motors (Machines) industry

• Demonstrate excellent customer focus

• Business acumen

• Presentation skills and good networking skills

• Previous experience in an external sales role

• As this is an Area Sales role covering a designated territory, the successful candidate will manage customers and business opportunities across the region. A full and clean UK driving licence is therefore essential.

Benefits

We also offer our employees the following benefits:

• Competitive salary

• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

• Competitive contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)

• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Generous employee referral scheme

• Company car

• Private medical cover

• Generous bonus scheme

More about us

For the 6th consecutive year, ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in the UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

ABB Motion provides pioneering technology, products, solutions and related services to industrial customers to increase energy efficiency, improve safety and reliability, and maintain precise control over processes. The portfolio includes motors, generators and drives for a wide range of applications in all industrial sectors

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