Technical Sales Rep

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services and solutions. Howden’s core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling, and have over a century of experience in doing so.

ESAB South Africa, a division of Howden MEA is looking for a Technical Sales Representative to promote and sell the organisation’s products and services within an assigned geographic area, product range, or a list of customer accounts to meet sales target.

What Will You Do?

• Pursue sales leads, visit existing and new customers.
• Assess customer needs and suggest appropriate products and services.
• Respond to customer queries.
• Negotiate prices and delivery times within limits of authority
• Conclude sales orders to meet revenue targets.
• Identify, research, and contact prospective customers and build positive relationships that will generate future sales and repeat business.
• Refer sales leads, customer feedback and information on competitor activity to appropriate contacts within the organisation so that they can respond to changing market conditions and customer demands.
• Establish annual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly sales plans and, prioritise and schedule own activities so these targets are met.
• Assist Accounts department on timely debt collections.

Your Experience Should Be...

• Degree or Diploma in Sales/ Marketing.
• Engineering qualification would be advantageous.
• 5 years relevant experience in sales or marketing within the gas and welding environment.
• Product technical knowledge.
• Be proactive, dynamic, self-motivated, aggressive and sales orientated
• Customer focus
• Team player and results driven.
• Computer Literate
• Influencing and selling skills
• Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Word, Excel and Projects