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Sales Engineer – Packaging Machinery
Territory: Southern UK – home based
Package: Competitive salary + bonus + company car, fuel card and benefits
A proven territory with room to grow
This is an opportunity to take ownership of an established sales region with existing customers, strong technology and genuine growth potential.
The previous territory manager has progressed internally, creating an opening for someone ambitious to build on solid foundations and develop towards a future sales leadership role.
You’ll work with food manufacturers across Southern England, helping them improve their packaging operations through the right machinery, automation and technical solutions.
What you’ll be doing
This is consultative capital-equipment sales rather than high-volume product selling.
You’ll spend time understanding production challenges, identifying opportunities and bringing together the commercial and technical elements needed to deliver the right solution.
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Your role will include:
- Developing existing accounts and winning new business
- Visiting food manufacturing and processing sites
- Understanding applications and recommending suitable machinery
- Managing opportunities from initial discussion through to order
- Preparing commercial proposals and equipment specifications
- Supporting demonstrations, trials and factory acceptance tests
- Coordinating with technical, project and service colleagues
- Managing your territory, diary and sales pipeline
Regular travel and overnight stays are an important part of the position, with occasional overseas visits.
What we’re looking for
You may already sell packaging or processing machinery, be a Sales Engineer ready for greater ownership, or have relevant technical experience and the personality to build a successful commercial career.
What matters is that you are:
- Comfortable developing relationships with customers
- Commercially aware, persuasive and confident negotiating
- Curious about machinery, automation and manufacturing applications
- Proactive, resilient and capable of creating opportunities
- Organised enough to manage a territory and longer sales cycles
- Ambitious to progress into a more senior commercial role
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Experience in packaging machinery, food-processing equipment, automation or associated capital equipment would be particularly relevant.
A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel extensively are essential.
Why consider it?
You’ll inherit customers and live potential rather than an empty patch. You’ll also receive structured training, support from an experienced team and a clear route towards sales management.
The package includes a competitive salary, bonus, company car, fuel card, laptop, mobile phone and fully covered business travel.
Interested? Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
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