Sales Support Representative

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Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Entry level
Other
The Role
The Sales Support Representative serves as the primary contact for customers, collaborating with various departments to address inquiries, drive sales initiatives, develop proposals, and improve customer experience. The role involves managing sales reports, participating in forecasting processes, and supporting continuous improvement efforts.
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Role Summary:
The Sales Support Representative (SSR) is the primary point of contact for the customer and collaborates with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and other departments to respond to customer inquiries. The position works with the Sales leadership team in driving key initiatives and helping the Flowserve to achieve its goals and maximize sales bookings and opportunity pipelines. The SSR will use data as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning of sales quota forecasting, and sales productivity reporting and efficiency analysis.

Your role:

  • Promote a positive and professional working atmosphere, where the status quo is challenged to improve, and the team is driven toward creating an exceptional customer experience.
  • Lead coordination efforts on applicable aftermarket quotes while ensuring close collaboration and communication with all applicable stakeholders.
  • Review customer specifications and documents to apply current Flowserve technical and commercial requirements.
  • Drive daily tactical customer proposals in addition to support strategic offerings, as well as identified sales win back opportunities.
  • Partner with Site Hubs to drive quotation performance within region, and across the aligned product sites, while fully leveraging quoting tools for prioritization, quicker cycle times, shortened parts delivery times, and minimization of rework.
  • Generate high quality, on time, value priced proposals to facilitate order fulfilment.
  • Manage and monitor the proposal throughout the entire bid cycle including updating and maintaining designated workload management tool, while monitoring hit-rate optimization.
  • Identify and develop key actions in partnership with sales leadership team required to achieve forecast accuracy, addressing gaps in performance, preparation of QBR data analytics.
  • Maintain current, accurate and organized records of sales training, organization charts as well as other critical pieces of information needed to manage the sales engagement.
  • In collaboration with Sales leadership team ensure continuous improvement projects are executed and delivered to meet objectives.
  • Receive in and compile weekly sales reports.
  • Support 30 day/ quarterly sales forecast and monthly outlook processes.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Your Profile:

  • Customer focused with a results-driven mindset.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, while ensuring effective communication and collaboration across varying functional/business platforms.
  • Experience in sales or customer service in an engineered manufacturing environment with proven success in administrating commercial and/or government contracts.
  • Demonstrate success in influencing people through effective collaboration, problem-solving and relational engagement.
  • Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of pump applications and types, a clear understanding of parts, programs, and processes to best drive solutions to our valued end user customers.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, able to work independently and be a team player with a global mindset and approach.
  • Excellent organizational skills, able to establish priorities and work to specific deadlines with little supervision.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office package

Nice to have:

  • GCSE’s (Grade C or equivalent) including Math & English.
  • Additional admin education level would be a plus. 
  • Work experience in similar role is desirable.
  • Good communication, Customer focus approach and Team worker.
  • Technical & commercial communicator.
  • Trustworthy and reliable.
  • Logical, solution centric and commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Determined to complete task.
  • Knowledgeable of BOM construction and ERP environment
  • Must have proven experience working with SAP S/4HANA.
  • Previous experience in the rotating equipment industry (pumps, seals, and pumping systems) is desirable.

What we offer (among other benefits):

  • 2.5% of Annual Incentive Plan (depending on the function)

  • Life insurance

  • Employee referral bonus

The Company
Irving, TX
11,823 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Flowserve is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pumps, valves and seals with over 19,000 employees in over 60 countries. Built on more than 50 world-renowned heritage brands, the equity and customer loyalty we have earned over the past 220 years is the foundation of our leadership position across the globe.

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