Technical Sales Manager

|Industrial & Energy - Management|Auckland

Are you a commercially driven technical sales professional who enjoys solving customer problems, building long-term relationships and growing strategic accounts?

Do you thrive in a proactive sales environment where you’re trusted to own your territory, develop meaningful customer partnerships and create real business value?

If so, we’d like to hear from you.

Our client is a global leader in high-quality fluid system products, assemblies and services with offices around the world, including across Australasia. They partner with customers across a diverse range of industries, including clean energy, dairy, geothermal, water, chemical processing, power generation and manufacturing. As a privately owned company with nearly 80 years of experience, they are committed to helping customers enhance safety, improve reliability, and optimise operational performance.

As the business continues to diversify and grow, they are investing heavily in their people, their customers, and their future. As such, we are looking for a new Technical Sales Manager to join the Auckland based team.

The Role
We are looking for an experienced Technical Sales Manager to take ownership of an established territory with significant growth potential. This is a true business development and account management role where you will partner with customers to understand their challenges, identify opportunities and deliver technical solutions and sales that create measurable value.
 
Specifically, you will:

  • Develop and execute strategic account plans across your territory.
  • Drive new business while growing existing accounts, through identifying customer challenges and recommending value-added solutions.
  • Build trusted relationships with client key decision makers and manage opportunities from initial engagement through to successful close.
  • Maintain a healthy sales pipeline using HubSpot CRM.
  • Collaborate with technical specialists and internal stakeholders to deliver outstanding customer outcomes.

To be successful in the role, you will be someone who enjoys getting in front of customers and takes ownership of your results.
 
Ideally you will have:

  • Proven success in B2B account management and technical sales
  • Experience within industrial markets such as manufacturing, dairy, energy, oil & gas, water, chemical processing or engineering
  • A proactive, self-motivated approach with strong commercial drive.
  • Experience managing sales opportunities through a structured sales process.
  • Strong CRM discipline, experience using HubSpot is highly beneficial
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
  • Mechanical aptitude or the ability to quickly learn technical products and applications.
  • A genuine curiosity about customer operations and a passion for solving problems.

Being a sales role, this role requires travel and being a holder of a clean New Zealand driver’s licence.
 
Apply now!
This is an opportunity to build a long-term career with a global market leader that genuinely invests in its people. There is a very competitive package (salary, car allowance, commission and bonus structure).
 
If you  are a proven technical sales manager with experience partnering with customers to understand their challenges, deliver technical solutions, and identify new opportunities, then we would like to hear from you.
 
PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from people already living in New Zealand and holding valid work permits or residency.
 
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To apply for this position please click on the relevant button, alternatively for a confidential and discreet inquiry contact Andrew Hickey on 04 282 1562 or email andrew@trs.co.nz

Note: If this vacancy is not exactly what you are seeking, then please contact me in confidence to discuss your individual requirements.

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