the sales manager will work as part of a team formulate a five year sales forecast contributing to the development and implementation of the business strategy contribute to the annual sales budget and infill participating in monthly progress reviews sell the companys products and capabilities by visiting existing and new target customers in order to achieve business objectives and growth targets facilitate the preparation of quotations which will include bid production and submission to coordinate individual plans with other sales managers sales support staff and where appropriate overseas agents to ensure that departmental activities are effective and deliver results maintain existing customer relationships and d the sales marketing manager will have proven sales record within the aerospacedefence market with knowledge of oem and mod procurement structures preferred able to conduct professional commercial and technical presentations at senior customer levels ability to successfully negotiate all aspects of business proposal through to contract award and managing multiple sales opportunities of varying complexity degree or hnd in an engineering discipline would be preferred but a proven sales record with experience could be considered as an adequate substitute excellent communication skills verbal written and it literacy demonstrate energy infectious enthusiasm tenacity major defence contractor basic car bonus benefits your application will be reviewed by michael page please be aware we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials we will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview where specific uk qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents michael page is a world leading recruitment consultancy this job was originally posted as wwwtotaljobscomjobseekingsalesmanagerjob