BEMS/BMS Project Sales Engineer

Base Location: Leeds, covering Yorkshire and Humberside

Salary: Competitive + company car/cash allowance, performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances, and wellbeing

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time

What is the Role? 

Are you looking to take the next step in your BEMS Energy/Controls career and want to join a major player in the industry in a Sales related capacity?

Reporting into the Business Manager, this opportunity will give you the chance to work within our existing branch team of BEMS sales engineers, assist in executing the sales process and learn to cultivate and manage long-term relationships. You will help to seek out, qualify and go on to close new sales opportunities utilising sales tools to help plan and document progress, you will gain capabilities, such to increase business opportunities and participate as a member of the team on key campaigns.

• Working closely with your colleagues, Business Manager and the Sales Directors will help you to grow and transition into a professional Project Sales Engineer with your own key accounts and customers.
• This role will also benefit from working closely with our network of contracted end user accounts and developing sales opportunities from our public sector framework successes; understanding their business, operational and environmental objectives.
• You’ll be tasked with proactively identifying and contacting existing and new clients, understanding their business, operational and environmental objectives and ultimately building relationships with the key individuals such to win project contracts for Smart Buildings.
• Utilising your industry experience in BEMS/energy management, you’ll be able to share your technical knowledge, operations and any sales expertise with clients and learn to match SSE capabilities to their business need. You’ll quickly manage multiple, ongoing opportunities & sell new projects by differentiating SSE from competitors.
• Personal development of team members is fundamental to how we operate and your own development will be mapped out for you with regular reviews to track progress against SMART objectives.

What do I need?

• you'll be proactive, self-motivated, display a professional manner and a dedication to achieving results, with great outcomes for the company by meeting customer expectations; including delivering technical support, coaching and direction. You'll be working in an ever-changing environment and as such will be adaptable and flexible.
• With a determination to grow our business you will enjoy proactively contacting new clients and be comfortable presenting them with solutions to their BEMS requirements.
• Already in or have previous experience working in a BEMS engineering role with a good grounding in multiple BEMS Products and engineering solutions supporting the Sales team to ensure Tender returns are valid and achievable
• Understand the contractual environment, such to deliver great outcomes by balancing the needs of both the project, customers and the company
• As you’ll be field based but with very regular travel to different sites & customer locations, it is essential that you hold a full driving licence and are located within the region with a flexible working approach.

About our Business

SSE Enterprise Utilities is the Distributed Energy (DE) and Private Networks business of SSE plc. We finance, own, operate and maintain energy infrastructure for commercial, industrial and residential customers - providing them with a market leading project development service and certainty of operational performance and asset management.

What's in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Tristan.Holdsworth@sse.com

Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

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