Regional Sales Manager LCS (Northern Region)
At a glance
Mid-level Sales Leadership role at Krones. Westhoughton.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Build customer relationships while keeping weekly appointments, reports, and opportunities current in Salesforce
- Sell Krones and agency products by developing leads, advising customers across LCS channels, and following up
- Coordinate regional commercial and operational work with the Area Sales Manager and Regional Service Manager
- Prepare quotations, manage technical and commercial enquiries, negotiate contracts, and track live opportunities
- Create local sales campaigns and present proposals to internal and external customers
What you bring
- At least three years in the same or a comparable industry, with evidence of sales results
- An engineering background and education at HNC or A level standard or higher
- Strong IT skills across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and preferably a CRM platform
- A clean full driving licence, confidence negotiating, and clear communication with people at every level
- Readiness for UK and European travel
Who this fits
This role suits a customer-focused sales manager who can handle both technical and commercial responsibility for LCS products. You should be persuasive, assertive, comfortable negotiating, and able to maintain customer and CRM discipline. Frequent UK travel and occasional European travel are part of the role, with travel potentially weighted heavily toward being on the road.
From the employer
“Innovative solutions for sustainable and affordable beverages, food and essentials” – we have a clear vision at Krones. For this purpose, we supply state-of-the-art technology to our customers worldwide.
With its headquarters in Westhoughton, Bolton, Krones UK is the hub for Krones activities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Our team of about 160 employees offers our customers a wide range of solutions spanning from sales and project management through to a variety of services.
Interested? Then join our team because: we can achieve more together!
Let's create impact beyond tomorrow What awaits you
- Maintain and build strong relationships with internal & external customers
- Salesforce Customer Relations Management system to be kept up to date on a weekly basis with customer appointments, reports and updating opportunities
- Cooperate within region on a commercial and operation level with Area Sales Manager and Regional Service Manager
- Consult customers about all LCS sales channels and follow up regularly with all customers
- Grow business and actively promote and sell Krones and agency products
- Generating and expediting all new sales leads, opportunities and enquiries
- Responsible both technically and commercially for all LCS products, enquiries and orders.
- Building strong business relationships with both new and existing customers
- Identifying opportunities, understanding customer needs and highlighting Krones USP’s
- Create local sales initiatives and campaigns
- Create & deliver presentations to internal & external customers
- Negotiate contracts with customers
- Checking, preparing and issuing customer quotations
- Quotation follow up
- Recording new opportunities in CRM and ensuring all live enquiries are updated.
- Occasional travel to Europe and frequent travel within the UK is to be expected
- Travel could be up to a 70/30 ratio in favour of travelling
Your Profile You contribute
- At least three years’ experience in a same/similar industry with a proven track record.
- A background in Engineering
- High level of IT literacy, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and ideally experience in using a CRM system
- Persuasiveness and assertiveness
- Strong negotiation skills
- Customer focussed
- Confident communicator at all levels
- Educated to at least HNC/ A level and above
- A full clean driving licence
- Able to undertake UK & European travel
Have we sparked your interest? Then send us your application! You can expect exciting challenges that provide real impetus, in a team that motivates and supports you at the same time – and framework conditions that are not only attractive but also adapt to your life.
To get us talking quickly, simply send us your application via our online form – it takes less than 5 minutes!
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