Join our team as a Graduate Technical Sales Consultant!
We're actively seeking a Graduate Technical Sales Consultant. This role would be ideal for a recent graduate of STEM who is motivated by a bigger purpose and has an innate curiosity.
Job Purpose:
As a Graduate Technical Sales Consultant, you will work extensively with internal technical teams (both in the UK and US), to create high impact, high value solutions to match or exceed client requirements. Our unique combination of expert consultative support combined with world-class analytical laboratories means that we don’t just sell tests – we solve the toughest challenges for our clients! You will have the opportunity to work with amazing clients who are developing new products and services. Our variety of clients is phenomenal, and no two days will be the same.
This role requires a collaborative, team player approach, combined with the desire to work in a results-oriented environment, and a capability to develop and deploy exceptional sales and account management skills. The role will be based at the Lucideon facility in Stone, Staffordshire, and may require periodic travel to client sites or other locations as deemed required by the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Achieve and exceed team and personal targets set by the business through targeted growth of existing accounts and development of new accounts.
- Work with clients to clarify and define requirements to develop written quotations and proposals in line with their needs.
- Make initial contact and build relationships with newly identified leads generated by marketing activities.
- Develop and maintain key customer accounts.
- Prepare formal quotations and calculations as necessary, including project scoping tools and meetings.
- Collaborate with our technical teams in the UK and US to leverage a portfolio of technology offerings, consultancy services and analytical based solutions offered by the Lucideon Group.
Key Person Requirements:
- Qualifications or experience in STEM related technical subject(s).
- Previous experience in a laboratory or technical environment would be desirable.
- Previous experience of client engagement, whether in a sales environment or in support of client requirements is desirable.
Key Skills & Qualities:
- Ability to build relationships with customers.
- Ability to work in a ‘one team’ manner to resolve any challenges both internally and externally.
- Inquisitive, quick-thinking, and skilled at networking.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral, at all levels of seniority.
- Excellent organisation skills with the proven ability to prioritise workload.
- Commercial awareness with an appreciation of costs, pricing and margins.
- Proficient with various Microsoft Office applications.
Core Features & Benefits
- Permanent position
- 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday
- Onsite at our office in Stone, Staffordshire
- Private Medical Insurance
- Medical Cash Plan
- Annual leave of 25 days plus bank holidays (including Christmas shutdown)
- Pension scheme (matched up to 5%)
- Onsite Mental Health First Aiders
- Life Assurance up to four times basic salary
- Professional development support with internal and external opportunities to learn and grow
- A corporate library to facilitate informed decision-making and innovation
Here at Lucideon we are passionate about making the world a materially better place. And that’s exactly what we strive to do, day in day out, using our capabilities, expertise, and technologies in materials science and testing, to solve problems and provide innovative solutions. Our society rightly demands ever more environmentally-focused application of resources and energy; our vision is to be the world’s number one trusted materials science partner, providing unrivalled technical expertise to enable, enhance, and accelerate our customers’ activities… and to satisfy those demands.
We are materials magicians. Our range of activities is fascinating and diverse. We make damaged nuclear reactors secure. We ensure medicines stay safe. We reduce our customers’ energy consumption and monitor their CO2 emissions. We keep aircraft engines turning. We test the world’s most iconic buildings…even making sure the roof of Wembley Stadium doesn’t collapse! We make sure replacement hip joints stand the test of time. We improve toothpaste and shampoo. We even have some of our products on Mars. And that’s just a few examples. There is never a dull day at Lucideon!
Ready to kickstart your career journey? Apply now!
