Siemens Smart Infrastructure – Develop what will be important tomorrow. Siemens EA are currently recruiting for an experienced MV Protection Sales Manager who would be responsible for customers / Accounts in the Northern Region. As the MV Protection Sales Manager, you will be responsible for defining and implementing growth strategies for your accounts and obtain profitable growth from increased market share of the EA products through growing existing business and new business. Experience in selling MV Protection relays, is essential and a knowledge of RTU’s, Power Quality meters, Protection & Control and AVC Tap changers would be desirable. Future thinker? Read on You must also have experience dealing with DNO’s,OEM’s,SI’s . Dedication and hard working are pre-requisite for this opportunity and great rewards are on offer for the right candidates. You must be self motivated, have the right experience and be able to manage yourself on a daily and weekly basis. Team spirit and the ability to work closely with the wider team is a must. What are my responsibilities? •Develop customer account plans including executive CRM, orders, forecasts, strategies and actions. •Maintain sales activity (order input, call frequency etc) to maximise numbers of prospects and opportunities to ensure DG business achieves budget order intake for designated area •Develop and maintain key prospect lists •Provide a monthly report to UK Sales Manager – DG on order intake, 3 month forecast, key prospect update, other sales activity and market information in line with business reporting requirements •Provide support to customers and end users to ensure high customer satisfaction levels •Maintain up to date comprehensive market information utilising business CRM and marketing tools as appropriate. •Build relationships within customer organisations •Collect market intelligence to be fed into MI@Energy group •Build up relationships across Siemens to ensure EM and Siemens cross selling (sector boards) objectives are met •Take part in customer negotiations •Support colleagues within other regions to maximise DG success rate •Track progress of the key projects from initial concept through to contract negotiation. What do I need to qualify for this job? •Good understanding of UK Energy Automation market •Mature and professional image •Broad understanding of the UK T&D market and drivers •Good understanding of value chain within ‘Control & Protection’ field with particular emphasis on system integrators, EPCs and OEMs •Good understanding of Control, Automation & Protection technology and applications •Broad knowledge of the organisation, Siemens, products, technologies and services •Tenacious, goal driven with a strong desire to succeed •Strong team player with good interpersonal skills •Good communicator and listener •Good presentation skills •Excellent co-ordination, influencing and facilitator skills •Good analytical skills to understand the customers business and where to focus the combined, value added efforts •Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively • Experience is selling Products, Protection & Control, to DNO’s, OEM’s, SI, and Channel Partners in the Energy Distribution Sector. Siemens recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants. See our flexibility culture here. We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you? Smart infrastructure enables the way we want to live - happily, comfortably, sustainably and in harmony. We do this from physical products, components, and systems to connected, cloud-based digital offerings and service. From intelligent grid control and electrification to smart storage solutions, from building automation and control systems to switches, valves, and sensors. It’s incredibly important that our people enjoy working here and therefore we take great pride in having a friendly, helpful, and engaging culture. We also appreciate that development and training is important to many and that’s why we have an encouraging environment which invests in our employee’s development, whether that’s Chartership, training or mentoring. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new. That’s why we recruit great minds from all backgrounds. Siemens encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexible working requirements with you. And if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to enable you to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know via our FAQ section here: [https://new.siemens.com/uk/en/company/jobs/faq.html]. Organization: Smart Infrastructure Company: Siemens plc Experience Level: not defined Job Type: Full-time