Senior Sales Engineer (Chemical, Process & Industrial)
At a glance
Senior Solutions & Sales Engineering role at Rotork. Villeneuve-la-Garenne · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Own sales delivery across the assigned French territory, including account forecasts, budgets, and agreed performance targets
- Advise end users, EPCs, valve makers, and distributors on technical requirements and Rotork products
- Grow existing accounts and find new customers and revenue opportunities across chemical, process, and industrial markets
- Coordinate sales channels, project oversight, product launches, and customer campaigns with local and internal teams
- Share customer and market insights with managers, and provide product familiarization training when needed
What you bring
- An engineering degree or another recognized engineering qualification
- Strong spoken and written English and French
- A successful industrial sales background, preferably in flow control, with around five or more years in a similar position
- Knowledge of sales methods and strong commercial judgment
Who this fits
This senior sales role suits someone who can build customer relationships, grow accounts, and work across teams in a complex business. The role is based in Villeneuve-la-Garenne with a hybrid arrangement, and requires national travel as needed.
From the employer
This is a key role to provide customer ownership, sales activity, build relation and work directly with End Users, EPCs, Valve makers and distributors, increase the profitability and growth, end to end sales delivery across product portfolio, provide technical advice to customers, manage France market and sales forecasting across accounts.
Reporting to the Sector Manager CPI sector, you will be responsible for executing the sales delivery in the designated end market sector and territory to meet sales forecasts and KPI’s.
In this role you will be responsible for sales: strategy and delivery, forecasting, channel management, specifically Chemical, Process & Industries market sector value proposition input, acting as the regional voice of the customer, budget management and perform project oversight, deliver operational excellence across different channels and in collaboration with other internal teams, use business development approaches to expand the customer base and potential revenue streams by identifying and setting up new customers.
This role would suit responsibilities of delivery sales against agreed upon targets, providing technical advice to customers, growing current sales accounts, and feed business intelligence into line managers and working with internal departments to ensure customer satisfaction. Working collaboratively with the local Area Sales Manager, Application Engineering, Customer contact, internal sales and other back-office sales activities as required. New product introductions, campaign and event management whereas required.
Experience Requirements:
- Degree or recognized qualification in Engineering
- Good command of English & French (both spoken and written)
- Sales experience in industrial applications preferably flow control and accompanying proven track record of success, likely to be gained from 5+ years in a similar role
- Knowledge and experience of sales techniques
- Demonstrate strong commercial acume
- Collaborative working across a variety of business units, challenging siloed thinking wherever it appears
- Charismatic and inspiring personality with strong entrepreneurial flair and business acumen; passion for business growth
The Successful Candidate:
- Ready to travel nationally as required
- Capable of communicating at all levels
- Demonstrate an appetite and ability to work collaboratively in a complex and matrixed business
- Able to deal with people with different cultures throughout the region
- Able to thrive in a changing business, embracing ambiguity and solving problems
- Demonstrate Rotork products and provide familiarization training as needed to build internal and external knowledge and understanding of Rotork products
Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow of liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.
Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.
For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.
Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.
Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.
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