Sales Manager

Are you an experienced Irish Sales Manager with a track record of selling to the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry? Do you have a technical, consultative approach to sales? We're open on product – but special purpose capital equipment or medical devices would be obvious matches. We're also open to applications from Project Managers who wants to transition to an account management, sales role. This is a home based Sales Manager role, and you will be located in the Republic of Ireland and be willing to travel nationally and manage your own sales diary.

BASIC SALARY: Up to 85,000€

BENEFITS:
· Good Holiday package rising with service
· Company Car / Allowance
· Laptop & Mobile

LOCATION: Anywhere in the Republic of Ireland

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Drogheda, Dundalk, Swords, Navan, Bray, Ennis, Carlow, Kilkenny, Naas, Tralee, Newbridge, Balbriggan, Portaloise, Athlone, Mullingar, Letterkenny, Greystones-Delgany, Wexford, Sligo, Celbridge.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Sales Manager, Key Account Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Project Manager – Special Purpose Machinery, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Process Machinery

As our Sales Manager, you will be selling customised process, aseptic / inspection and packaging solutions to the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector.

The role is split roughly 50/50 between managing existing accounts and following up leads / enquiries to generate new business. You will manage circa 12 key accounts and leads will be generated by central company marketing, shows and the sales team themselves.

Order values are from £200k – £300k, to full production lines that can be £5m+. Key accounts should generate circa £1.5m unmanaged. This Sales Manager role will have a £3m target in year one.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Sales Manager, Key Account Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Project Manager – Special Purpose Machinery, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Process Machinery

· Manage circa 12 important and high spending key accounts across Ireland.
· Develop, generate and manage sales activity for small, medium and multi-national accounts.
· Execute the sales cycle from initial contact through to installation.
· Drive growing sales in an expanding market

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Sales Manager, Key Account Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Project Manager – Special Purpose Machinery, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Process Machinery

To be successful in your application for this Sales Managerrole you will have / be :
· Based in the Republic of Ireland
· Have broad experience and knowledge of the pharmaceutical sector. Again, we're open on product – but you must have worked with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
· Proven track record as a strong Sales Manager, Account Manager or Project Manager.
· A self starter with a results-driven work ethic.
· Tenacious, commercially savvy with an innate ability to maintain and develop relationships with important key account customers.

THE COMPANY:

We're a market leading manufacturer and supplier of aseptic, primary and secondary automatic packaging machinery, with an excellent global reputation and high quality product offering. We're exploiting our exceptional success on the global stage to expand our product offering across the UK and Eire.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager, Project Manager, Sales Engineer – Special Purpose Machinery, Aseptic Fill Equipment, PPMA, Packaging Machinery, Process Machinery, Aseptic Pharmaceutical Machinery

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: SP18268, Wallace Hind Selection