Sealpac UK & Partners
Technical Sales Executive – Food Processing & Packaging
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Home-based covering the South of the UK with extensive travel, regular overnight stays and occasional overseas travel.
Reporting To
Sales Manager – South
The Opportunity
Sealpac UK is looking for an ambitious Technical Sales Executive to join our growing sales team. This is a development role with a clear pathway into a Sales Manager position. You will work alongside experienced colleagues, developing customer relationships, identifying new business opportunities and managing capital equipment sales projects from enquiry through to order.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop new business opportunities across the UK food processing and packaging industry.
- Build and manage long-term customer relationships.
- Prepare quotations, proposals and equipment specifications.
- Conduct customer visits, equipment demonstrations and factory surveys.
- Attend customer trials, Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) and commissioning activities.
- Work with the Projects, Technical and Service teams to deliver successful projects.
- Maintain a healthy sales pipeline using HubSpot CRM.
- Represent Sealpac UK professionally at customer meetings, supplier visits and exhibitions.
- Travel extensively throughout the South of the UK with frequent overnight stays away from home as an essential part of the role.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Evidence of strong sales aptitude or commercial capability.
- 1 year territory sales experience.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate.
- Self-motivated with a proactive approach to business development.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Willingness to travel extensively and stay away from home regularly.
Equipment & Benefits
- Company car
- Fuel card
- Company mobile phone
- Company laptop
- Company uniform
- Business travel and accommodation expenses paid
- Structured training and clear career progression
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Person Profile – Technical Sales Executive – Food Processing & Packaging
Essential Sales Competencies
- Ability to influence and persuade customers to achieve positive commercial outcomes.
- Confidence negotiating solutions whilst balancing customer and business requirements.
- Identifying commercial opportunities and taking proactive action to develop them.
- Building relationships that lead to new business opportunities.
- Understanding customer requirements and translating them into commercially viable solutions.
- Managing multiple opportunities whilst maintaining an active sales pipeline.
- Demonstrating resilience when faced with rejection or lengthy sales cycles. Working towards measurable objectives and taking ownership for achieving results.
- Working towards measurable objectives and taking ownership for achieving results.
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