Sales Account Manager- Honeycomb
We are looking for a Sales Account Manager to join our team in Oerlikon Neomet to drive the sales of Honeycomb and other Neomet products.
As a Sales Manager, you will play an integral part in creating and maintaining a sales plan to achieve targets with international customers in both the Aerospace and gas turbine industries.
You will use your experience and industry knowledge to maintain an up-to-date awareness of the market and our competitors and use this information to support the sales strategy.
We offer:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Car Allowance or company vehicle
- Enhanced Pension contributions
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Group Life assurance
- Private Health Care
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company Laptop and Mobile Phone
- Field Based role, flexible on location
Your Responsibilities
- Prepare and support the creation of quotations, lead customer negotiations, and ensure timely follow‑up and feedback on all submitted proposals.
- Identify, communicate, and support cross‑selling opportunities across the Neomet product portfolio.
- Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline with sufficient opportunities to exceed annual revenue targets and support the five‑year business plan.
- Prepare, agree, and manage annual revenue budgets and provide additional financial data as required.
- Ensure that all new and existing business meets profitability expectations in line with company targets.
- Lead the initial management and support the introduction of new projects (NPI), ensuring smooth and effective handovers to the CSC team.
- Provide regular feedback on customers, competitors, market trends, opportunities, and pipeline activity during the monthly Sales Review.
- Monitor market demand for Honeycomb and Neomet products within the aerospace and gas turbine sectors.
Your Profile
- Ideally educated to degree/HNC level in engineering or qualified by experience
- Technical sales background within aerospace, oil and gas or other highly regulated industries.
- Excellent customer relationship management skills.
- Ability to utlise and understand budgets and forecasting.
Essential skills
- Target‑driven, self‑motivated, and able to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.
- Proven ability to sell within a manufacturing or engineering environment.
- Ideally, experience or knowledge of surface treatments and/or thermal spraying processes.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently at all levels of an organisation.
- Solid industry understanding relating to surface treatments and their applications.
- Advanced IT proficiency, particularly in Microsoft Office and SAP systems.
- Experience using CRM platforms to manage customer relationships and sales pipelines.
- Ability to read, interpret, and work with technical drawings.
- Strong presentation skills, capable of confidently introducing services and solutions to customers.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required to support customer engagement and business development.
Can you identify with this position and are you looking for a new challenge? Then we are eager to meet you! Please apply online.
Contact
Pamela Dodd
Pamela.Dodd@oerlikon.com
About Oerlikon
Oerlikon is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, medical, luxury, semiconductors and tooling. Head-quartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon operates in 38 countries with approximately 9,500 employees, achieving sales of CHF 1.6 billion in 2024.
We offer a wide variety of job profiles in a dynamic, supportive environment where people are empowered to grow and reach their full potential — guided by our core values of integrity, team spirit, excellence and innovation.
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