Technical Sales Engineer
SureScreen Materials
- Contract type
- Full-time/Permanent
- Location
- Derby
- Closing date
- 19 Dec 2025
- Salary
- Dependent on experience
About SureScreen Materials
SureScreen Materials is a UKAS-accredited testing laboratory, delivering consultancy, failure investigation, and in-house testing and analysis using a broad scope of techniques supporting a wide range of industries. Our mission is to deliver responsive, expert materials consultancy, operating as a trusted partner to our clients.
About the role
As a Technical Sales Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving SureScreen Materials’ growth and success. You will be responsible for expanding our existing client portfolio and generating new business opportunities by combining your technical knowledge with commercial insight. This position bridges technical understanding and business development.
You will collaborate closely with the Sales, Marketing, and Technical teams to deliver high-quality proposals, quotations, and customer service existing clients, as well as executing sales campaigns to onboard new clients.
Responsibilities
• Account Management. Grow net spend of current accounts by maintaining and developing relationships with current clients, identify other contacts within businesses, identify other sites within business and harness referrals and account suppliers. Build relationship with contacts through periodic calls, emails. Remote or face to face contact.
• New Business Sales. Creating and implementing strategies to successfully reach new business opportunities. Identifying new business opportunities, including new markets, new clients & new partnerships. To generate new or convert current leads into clients for the business by researching and contacting key personnel within potential businesses, sending information and arrange meetings.
• Technical Quotation. To receive enquiries and produce suitable technical quotations listing key details, work proposal and costs to enable the whole enquiry to be passed to the technical team to deliver.
• Responding to all customer correspondence (Internal/ External), making outbound calls (lead generation) and supporting a shared email inbox.
• Accurately maintaining CRM with client information
• Collaborating with marketing and sales teams to share ideas and maximise cross selling opportunities
• Collaborating with technical team to identify growth opportunities through new clients, new industries, new markets, new services & new accreditations
• Attending conferences and events to build relationships with industry partners and staying up to date with new trends
• Creating sales forecasts and actively working towards reaching them. Meet agreed sales and profit targets through new customer acquisition.
• Possessing a strong understanding of the company’s services, the competition in the industry and positioning
Requirements
• Technical background with 2+ years experience OR a degree in science, material science, engineering, metallurgy (essential)
• 2+ years’ experience in B2B sales (desirable)
• Able to generate own leads
• Excellent customer service and communication skills
• High attention to detail
• Maintaining a positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Is self-motivated and results driven
• Is a resilient and reliable team player
About SureScreen Materials recap
Joining SureScreen Materials means becoming part of something bigger, where expertise meets integrity, and where people truly matter. You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact, growing trusted relationships, shaping new markets, and representing a brand valued for being responsive, professional, trusted, and personable.
Approximate start date: As Soon As Possible