Sales Manager UK & Ireland

What are you going to do?

You will be responsible for expanding our customer base in the United Kingdom and Ireland. You will follow up on leads and effectively get (potential) customers excited about our product portfolio. This means you will spend a lot of time on the road and at our customers. When not travelling you work from your (home) office.

Together with our Sales Director and your two sales colleagues for the UK, you will set targets. To achieve these objectives, you will be given a lot of freedom to use your creativity. Our own travel department is at your disposal to book your business trips and to arrange everything related to welcoming international customers at our showroom in Rijssen (the Netherlands). Partly because of this, you can focus all your efforts on building strong client relationships. It is important that you understand how trade is conducted in these countries and that you have technical affinity. After all, you have to know what you are selling and be able to inform the customer extensively. Naturally, you have a lot of consultation with your enthusiastic colleagues from account management, sales support and sales engineering departments.

The highlights:

• You look for new sales opportunities and expansion of our customer base, as well as maintaining existing customer relationships;

• You understand customer needs and processes, identify opportunities and are aware of market trends in areas such as technology, competition and price;

• You manage and maintain customer files, keep track of visit and sales activities, sales forecasts and targets;

• You are in close contact with other departments like Product Management, Project Management and Product Development to maintain happy customers;

• You continue to develop yourself, for example through self-study on product, market and organisational knowledge.

We ask

• You are a fluent English speaker, preferably residing in the south of England;

• You have an affinity with the steel industry. Experience in this industry is a big plus;

• You have an enthusiastic personality with a great likeability factor and a great sense of responsibility;

• You are a go getter and a hunter with sales in your blood.

We offer

• A lot of freedom and responsibility

• Training and development opportunities

• Vibrant staff activities - all year round! 

About Voortman

What started in a chicken shed in Rijssen in 1968 has grown into a global player in CNC steel processing machines. With a team of over 750 colleagues worldwide, we not only develop and build high-end machines but also smart software and reliable service that our customers can count on. These three powerful pillars make our Twente-based international family business unique.