Inside Sales Representative – Bilingual (French & English)

Company Description

Instron specializes in the manufacturing, marketing and maintenance of testing machines intended to evaluate the mechanical properties and performance of materials. Instron has more than 1,200 employees worldwide with 25 sales and service offices across every continent. Our employees speak your language in more than 40 countries, allowing us to communicate with our customers and provide unrivalled customer service and support worldwide.

Instron has been established in France for more than 50 years, which has allowed us to build lasting relationships of trust with our customers.

This position is based in Elancourt.

Job Description

You will be the preferred interface between our customers and sales engineers deployed in the field. You will be an essential link with our Centers of Excellence based in the UK, USA and Italy.

Your responsibilities:

• provide pre-sales support to engineers, mainly manage the expectations of our customers and potential customers on a commercial level: analysis of needs, preparation of quotes, calls for tenders, public markets (experience in markets public is a plus).
• train within a sedentary operational sales team and cover a large geographic area. You will have a commercial development role for our installed base with the aim of achieving the team’s accessories sales objective.
• work closely with the marketing department and have an important prospecting role within the framework of marketing actions linked to our corporate strategy. You are a force for proposals in the context of these actions.
• work closely with the ADV department and harmonize our commercial action with our technical department.
• document all actions in the CRM database.

This position may be scalable depending on your commitment and abilities.

Your profile:

You will have a very good command of English including significant experience within a sales department. You will need to possess strong interpersonal skills, telephone ease and a sense of service which are essential qualities to succeed in this versatile commercial mission and to provide total satisfaction to our customers.

You will have an appetite for technology and it should be noted that rigor and knowledge of office automation is essential (Word, Excel, Outlook, database).

Qualifications

Bac +2 to +4/5 in commerce, technical-commercial profile, international trade or solid professional experience in the commercial and technical field are required.

Additional Information

This is an opportunity to join a high-performance team where you can have a significant impact. Benefit from competitive compensation and benefits.

Instron is an equal opportunity employer.

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