Area Sales Manager - Surveillance Systems

Summary

Our client is a UK based surveillance solutions provider delivering an integrated solution into the defence and security sectors. We are looking for a motivated sales professional with an engineering background and a sound technical understanding, supplemented with commercial experience, and a proven sales track record in complex security systems to join our client's sales team

Area Sales Manager - Surveillance Systems
Ref: J000553
Location: Cambridgeshire
Salary: competitive + benefits

Our client is a UK based surveillance solutions provider delivering an integrated solution into the defence and security sectors.

We are looking for a motivated sales professional with an engineering background and a sound technical understanding, supplemented with commercial experience, and a proven sales track record in complex security systems to join our client's sales team. The successful candidate will be working within a close-knit team but also working alone with customers both in the UK and abroad. As such you must be willing to travel and be responsible for representing our client in a professional manner under sometimes difficult and challenging conditions.

An ideal candidate should have all of the following skills and abilities:

  • A technical degree or technical experience in lieu
  • Able to design and/or critique the design of multi-sensor security systems that include radars, cameras, thermal imagers, communication systems and Command and Control (C2) stations
  • Able to communicate detailed technical information about the sensor system with the client's team and their customers including System Integrators and end-users
  • Able to prepare customer facing documents including technical proposals (e.g. response to RFI, RFP and RFQs), compliancy matrices, technical sales publications including white papers and radar propagation analysis
  • Be organised, allowing you to handle a large number of potential customers
  • Able to support exhibition stands and meet many new and diverse customers
  • Strong interpersonal communications skills with the ability to deal at all levels of an organisation, together with drive, energy, ambition and an outgoing personality
  • Good negotiation skills are essential, together with a good commercial awareness
  • Able to operate both independently and as part of a team, be resourceful and have good organisational, planning and presentation skills
  • Willingness and ability to travel overseas
  • Have a valid UK driving licence with no major endorsements.

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