Technical Sales Jobs in the UK & Ireland

Technical Sales Board currently lists 72 open positions for technical sales professionals in industry in the UK & Ireland, posted by 47 employers. 43% of these roles are field-based with regular customer visits, 11% are hybrid, 26% on-site and 19% fully remote. 38 of these positions are hunter roles with a clear focus on winning new business.

Technical Sales Board lists technical and industrial sales jobs only – no retail, no call centre, no software subscriptions. Every ad is classified by role, industry, country and city, by sales style from hunter to key account, by territory, travel share and required languages, and ads that have expired disappear the same day. What you see here is what is open right now.

UK & Ireland covers United Kingdom and Ireland – one search instead of 2 separate ones, which is how most sales territories are cut anyway.

The roles advertised most often here are Key Account Manager (10), Business Development Manager (9), Sales Director (8), Area Sales Manager (6), Technical Sales Manager (6), and Technical Sales Representative (6).

Key account managers look after a small number of strategic customers – frame contracts, annual price negotiations and an international account team – and grow the share of wallet.

By industry, most of these jobs come from Building Technology (13), Industrial Technology (12), Machinery (10), Chemicals & Materials (9), Electronics (6), and Energy (4).

Construction and building technology covers HVAC, building automation, construction machinery, facades, building materials and elevators. Customers are installers, general contractors, planners and investors – a market driven by energy efficiency and regulation.

11% of the ads state a salary: base pay ranges from €40,365 to €146,835 per year, with a median of €73,710. Variable pay and, in field roles, a company car usually come on top. More on median, range and source: technical sales salary benchmarks by role, industry and country.

A company car is mentioned in 22% of the ads, variable pay in 33%.

By country, the largest numbers of open positions are in United Kingdom (59) and Ireland (13).

Among the employers with the most open positions are Johnson Controls, Carrier, ABB, Agilent Technologies, and Diversey. 92% of the ads come from manufacturers, 1% from distributors and trading companies and 7% from service providers.

The languages employers ask for most are English, German, and Italian. 78% of the positions are aimed at experienced professionals, 21% carry leadership responsibility and 1% are open to career starters. Travel is part of the job: 15% of the roles involve a high share of travel, 10% a moderate one.

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