Trainee Sales Engineer (Cheltenham)

at  SpiraxSarco Engineering

OUR SALES ENGINEER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:

We’re looking for passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join our new Sales Engineer Development Programme, who we can develop to be our Sales Engineers of the future.
As participant in this programme, you will be part of a committed, innovative, and inclusive team. You will be at the forefront of our mission to engineer a more sustainable world. This role is not just about sales; it’s about finding innovative solutions that help our customers reduce their environmental impact, improve efficiency, and reduce cost.
Over the two-year programme, you’ll have the opportunity to work through a series of placements in multiple departments, shadow experts and meet customers. Your programme will be carefully structured to ensure you are given the best possible opportunity to learn and grow quickly, allowing you to accelerate your own career.
You will also complete an RVQ3 in Sales, with an external partner, whilst carrying out carefully designed in-house training across multiple topics from product knowledge to sales process.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A minimum of 4x GCSEs (including Maths & English at grade C/4)
• Further Education qualification (eg BTEC/NVQ/A Level)
• Eligibility to work permanently within the UK without requiring a visa.
• A Full UK drivers’ licence (or working towards this)
• The desire to work in a high-pressure environment with a self-starter attitude and openness to feedback.
• A willingness to travel (and potentially relocate in the future)
• An insatiable curiosity and a drive to meet new people, learn, and make a positive impact on the world.

HOW TO APPLY:

If this opportunity excites you and you are looking for an opportunity to learn a new skillset within a purpose-driven and value-oriented team, we encourage you to apply.
Together, we can engineer a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world.
Application Deadline: 12th May 2024
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

OUR PURPOSE:

At Spirax Group, we build strong partnerships with a vast number of customers across the world, whether consumer goods companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, you name it, we help them to make their operations more efficient, more sustainable or more secure through our products and technical expertise.
We’re proud of what we do, but we’re equally proud of how we do it. Our focus on making Spirax Group a place to work that is inclusive, diverse and focused on the wellbeing of all of our colleagues is what makes us a special place to work.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure completion of the Sales Engineer Development Programme, achieving the objectives of each placement and satisfying the ongoing development requirements.
• Build your specialist product, application, technology, and industry knowledge, through working with our technical experts, so that you can understand customer needs and resolve their challenges.
• Grow your network internally and build strong external customer relationships, so that by the end of the programme you are ready to hit the ground running and have an immediate impact.
• Aim high, bringing brilliant levels self-management and motivation, working with our proven sales processes and tools, to over-achieve sales targets and goals.